Author Details

Name: Juan Carlos García-Pagán

Affiliations: Barcelona Hepatic Hemodynamic Lab, Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; Fundació Clinic Recerca Biomèdica-Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (FCRB-IDIBAPS), Spain; Centro De Investigación Biomédica Red De Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd)), Spain. Electronic address: jcgarcia@clinic.cat.

Publications

• Hepatic venous pressure gradient predicts risk of hepatic decompensation and liver-related mortality in patients with MASLD.

• Predicting survival in patients with 'non-high-risk' acute variceal bleeding receiving β-blockers+ligation to prevent re-bleeding.

• Bacterial infections in patients with acute variceal bleeding in the era of antibiotic prophylaxis.

• Effects of Early Placement of Transjugular Portosystemic Shunts in Patients With High-Risk Acute Variceal Bleeding: a Meta-analysis of Individual Patient Data.

• Rebleeding and mortality risk are increased by ACLF but reduced by pre-emptive TIPS.

• Letter: improve survival! Place early pre-emptive TIPSS in high-risk variceal bleeders.

• Preemptive-TIPS Improves Outcome in High-Risk Variceal Bleeding: An Observational Study.