Liver Disease and Transplantation

Varices and variceal hemorrhage are important and challenging complications that lead to decreased survival in patients with cirrhosis. Their proper management will lead to improvement in survival, according to presenters in Monday’s AASLD Clinical Symposium “Update on the Management of Gastroesophageal Varices.”

As Monday’s AASLD State-of-the-Art “New Hope for HCC” lecturer Laura Kulik, MD, notes, “15 years ago, an hour on the treatment of liver cancer would have been very difficult.” But now, a one-hour update is not only possible, but important for gastroenterologists.