Growth arrest-specific 6 as a predictor of gastroesophageal varices in patients with liver cirrhosis

• Hauptverfasser: Khaled A.-A Eid (Verfasst von), Mona M Abdelmeguid (Verfasst von), Muhammad Abdel-Gawad (Verfasst von), Amera A.N Kotb (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background and aim Early detection of patients with gastroesophageal varices at high risk of bleeding is crucial. Nevertheless, sparing endoscopy to low-risk patients would be of value. Therefore, noninvasive methods have been proposed. Our study aimed to verify whether plasma GAS6 concentrations ar...