Author Details

Name: Ferran Torres

Affiliations: Biostatistics Unit, Medical School, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Publications

• Improving primary prophylaxis of variceal bleeding by adapting therapy to the clinical stage of cirrhosis. A competing-risk meta-analysis of individual participant data.

• Pre-emptive TIPS in high-risk acute variceal bleeding. An updated and revised individual patient data meta-analysis.

• Carvedilol reduces the risk of decompensation and mortality in patients with compensated cirrhosis in a competing-risk meta-analysis.

• 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.

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