Child-Turcotte-Pugh Class is Best at Stratifying Risk in Variceal Hemorrhage: Analysis of a US Multicenter Prospective Study.

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Published in J Clin Gastroenterol on October 24, 2016

Authors

Brett E Fortune1, Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, Maria Ciarleglio, Yanhong Deng, Michael B Fallon, Samuel Sigal, Naga P Chalasani, Joseph K Lim, Adrian Reuben, Hugo E Vargas, Gary Abrams, Michele D Lewis, Tarek Hassanein, James F Trotter, Arun J Sanyal, Kimberly L Beavers, Daniel Ganger, Paul J Thuluvath, Norman D Grace, Roberto J Groszmann, Vapreotide Study Group

Author Affiliations

1: *Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale School of Medicine †School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT ‡UT Physicians Digestive Disease Center, Houston §§Liver Consultants of Texas, Dallas, TX §Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY ∥Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN ¶Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC #Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ **Alabama Liver and Digestive, Montgomery, AL ††Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL ‡‡Southern California Liver Center, Coronado, CA ∥∥Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA ¶¶Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL ##Mercy Medical Center-Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD ***Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

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