Pressure of intraoesophageal varices assessed by fine needle puncture: its relation to endoscopic signs and severity of liver disease in patients with cirrhosis.

Transection of the oesophagus for bleeding oesophageal varices

1973 • 7,698 citations

Prediction of variceal hemorrhage by esophageal endoscopy

1981 • 750 citations

Hemodynamic effects of increased abdominal pressure

1981 • 460 citations

Comparison of paracentesis and diuretics in the treatment of cirrhotics with tense ascites

1987 • 458 citations

The General rules for recording endoscopic findings on esophageal varices

1980 • 318 citations

A Controlled Study of the Prophylactic Portacaval Shunt

1969 • 243 citations

PROPHYLACTIC PORTACAVAL ANASTOMOSIS

1972 • 239 citations

Measurement of Azygos Venous Blood Flow by a Continuous Thermal Dilution Technique: An Index of Blood Flow Through Gastroesophageal Collaterals in Cirrhosis†

1984 • 213 citations

Influence of the degree of liver failure on systemic and splanchnic haemodynamics and on response to propranolol in patients with cirrhosis.

1986 • 209 citations

Intravascular oesophageal variceal pressure (IOVP) assessed by endoscopic fine needle puncture under basal conditions, Valsalva's manoeuvre and after glyceryltrinitrate application.

1985 • 105 citations

Reliability of endoscopy in the assessment of variceal features

1987 • 93 citations

Wedged hepatic venous pressure

1957 • 85 citations

Percutaneous transhepatic portography in the assessment of portal hypertension

1980 • 83 citations

Comparison of Paracentesis and Diuretics in the Treatment of Cirrhotics With Tense Ascites

1987 • 81 citations

Somatostatin does not reduce oesophageal variceal pressure in liver cirrhotics.

1988 • 76 citations

Correlation Between the Severity of Esophageal Varices in Portal Cirrhosis and their Propensity Toward Hemorrhage

1956 • 50 citations

Effect of Increased Intraabdominal Pressure on Hepatic Hemodynamics in Patients With Chronic Liver Disease and Portal Hypertension

1973 • 45 citations

Clinical and prognostic significance of portohepatic gradient in patients with cirrhosis.

1982 • 45 citations

Oesophagitis in patients undergoing oesophageal transection for varices—a histological study

1983 • 24 citations

Usefulness of manometric assessment of varices in maintenance sclerotherapy

1987 • 18 citations

Histologic factors of the esophageal transection ring as clues to the pathogenesis of bleeding varices.

1984 • 17 citations

Variceal pressure, measured at endoscopy, but not portal pressure correlates with the risk of bleeding from oesophageal varices in cirrhosis

1985 • 3 citations

Oesophagitis in Italian and Hungarian Asymptomatic Subjects

1982 • 2 citations