Correction to: Portal Hypertensive Bleeding in Cirrhosis: Risk Stratification, Diagnosis, and Management: 2016 Practice Guidance by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (Hepatology, (2017), 65, (310-335), 10.1002/hep.28906);Portal hypertensive bleeding in cirrhosis: Risk stratification, diagnosis, and management: 2016 practice guidance by the American Association for the study of liver diseases

Hepatology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 310-335

  Garcia Tsao, Guadalupe ^a,b   Abraldes, Juan G ^c   Berzigotti, Annalisa ^d   Bosch, Jaime ^d,e,f  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BALLOON OCCLUDED RETROGRADE TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BLEEDING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECTOPIC VARICES; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH VARICES; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; VENOUS PRESSURE; COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85007173739     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.29169     Document Type: Erratum

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