Reply: Prophylactic variceal ligation is not recommended for patients awaiting live donor liver transplant

✍ Scribed by Lorenzo Norberto; Andrew Burroughs; Lino Polese

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 44 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1527-6465
• DOI: 10.1002/lt.21459

✦ Synopsis

We thank Wai and colleagues 1 for their comment on our article. 2 Their experience is consistent with ours and different from that reported by Jutabha et al. 3 In all 3 studies, the patients were liver transplant candidates and thus constituted a particular subgroup of patients with cirrhosis, as underlined also by Boyer. 4 In our opinion, this favors the use of beta-blockers instead of banding for primary prophylaxis for at least 2 reasons. The first, as underlined by Wai et al., is the short follow-up before liver transplantation. In fact, as shown in