Although endoscopic variceal band ligation is the undisputed gold standard therapy for bleeding esophageal varices, this approach has been less successful for the treatment of bleeding gastric ...

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 ...

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