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• Meta-analysis: Combination endoscopic and drug therapy to prevent variceal rebleeding in cirrhosis.

  BACKGROUND: Combining endoscopic therapy and beta-blockers may improve outcomes in patients with cirrhosis and bleeding esophageal varices. PURPOSE: T…

  Authors: Rosario Gonzalez, Javier Zamora, Judith Gomez-Camarero, Luis-Miguel Molinero, Rafael Bañares, Agustín Albillos

  Source: Annals of internal medicine. 2008 Jul 15

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• Simvastatin lowers portal pressure in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension: a randomized controlled trial.

  BACKGROUND & AIMS: Simvastatin improves liver generation of nitric oxide and hepatic endothelial dysfunction in patients with cirrhosis, so it could b…

  Authors: Juan G Abraldes, Agustin Albillos, Rafael Bañares, Juan Turnes, Rosario González, Juan Carlos García-Pagán, Jaime Bosch

  Source: Gastroenterology. 2009 May

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• Hepatic venous pressure gradient and prognosis in patients with acute variceal bleeding treated with pharmacologic and endoscopic therapy.

  BACKGROUND/AIMS: In acute variceal bleeding (AVB) hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) is associated with prognosis. However, this has not been stu…

  Authors: Juan G Abraldes, Cándid Villanueva, Rafael Bañares, Carles Aracil, Maria Vega Catalina, Juan Carlos Garci A-Pagán, Jaime Bosch, Spanish Cooperative Group for Portal Hypertension and Variceal Bleeding

  Source: Journal of hepatology. 2008 Feb

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• The extent of the collateral circulation influences the postprandial increase in portal pressure in patients with cirrhosis.

  BACKGROUND: In cirrhosis, repeated flares of portal pressure and collateral blood flow provoked by postprandial hyperaemia may contribute to variceal …

  Authors: Agustín Albillos, Rafael Bañares, Mónica González, Maria-Vega Catalina, Oscar Pastor, Rosario Gonzalez, Cristina Ripoll, Jaime Bosch

  Source: Gut. 2007 Feb

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• A meta-analysis of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt versus paracentesis for refractory ascites.

  BACKGROUND/AIMS: Meta-analysis designed to provide evidence-based guidance on the effect of TIPS and paracentesis on mortality and encephalopathy in c…

  Authors: Agustín Albillos, Rafael Bañares, Mónica González, María-Vega Catalina, Luis-Miguel Molinero

  Source: Journal of hepatology. 2005 Dec

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• Cardiac dysfunction during liver transplantation: incidence and preoperative predictors.

  BACKGROUND: The aim was to investigate the cardiac response during liver transplantation (LT) and analyze its relationship with clinical factors, echo…

  Authors: Cristina Ripoll, María-Vega Catalina, Raquel Yotti, Luis Olmedilla, José Pérez-Peña, Oreste Lo Iacono, Diego Rincón, Miguel Angel García-Fernández, Javier Bermejo, Rafael Bañares

  Source: Transplantation. 2008 Jun 27

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• Use of everolimus as a rescue immunosuppressive therapy in liver transplant patients with neoplasms.

  Everolimus is a new immunosuppressant with antitumoral properties and few side effects, but limited use in liver transplantation. The aim of the prese…

  Authors: Judith Gomez-Camarero, Magdalena Salcedo, Diego Rincon, Oreste Lo Iacono, Cristina Ripoll, Ana Hernando, Cecilia Sanz, Gerardo Clemente, Rafael Bañares

  Source: Transplantation. 2007 Sep 27

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• Antibodies against glutathione S-transferase T1 (GSTT1) in patients with GSTT1 null genotype as prognostic marker: long-term follow-up after liver transplantation.

  An objective to improve the evolution of transplants is to identify risk biomarkers of morbidity and loss of allograft. In liver transplant (LTX) reci…

  Authors: Margarita Rodriguez-Mahou, Magdalena Salcedo, Eduardo Fernandez-Cruz, Jose Luis R Tiscar, Rafael Bañares, Gerardo Clemente, Jose Luis Vicario, Emilio Alvarez, Carmen Rodriguez-Sainz

  Source: Transplantation. 2007 Apr 27

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• Liver diseases

  In Digestive Disease Week 2008, interesting advances in the treatment of hepatitis C were presented, especially related to the promising increase in t…

  Authors: José Luis Calleja, Agustín Albillos, Rafael Bañares

  Source: Gastroenterología y hepatología. 2008 Oct

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• Prevalence of portal hypertensive duodenopathy in cirrhosis: clinical and haemodynamic features.

  OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of portal hypertensive duodenopathy (PHD) in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension, and to evaluate i…

  Authors: Luis Menchén, Cristina Ripoll, Ignacio Marín-Jiménez, Arturo Colón, Judith Gómez-Camarero, Cecilia González-Asanza, Pedro Menchén, Enrique Cos, Rafael Bañares

  Source: European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology. 2006 Jun

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