The management of bleeding gastric varices remains controversial due to a lack of large, randomized, controlled trials and no clear clinical consensus. Although endoscopic variceal band ligation ...

Changes clinical practice: Patients with portal hypertension and large gastric varices (>/=10mm size), either isolated or associated with esophageal varices, should undergo primary prophylaxis.

All of the trials on TIPS and surgical shunts discussed above include a certain number of patients with gastric varices in their study population, and they report similar results of treatment ...