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Gut 51:894 doi:10.1136/gut.51.6.894
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Mortality with oesophageal varices: different things to different people

Table 1

Mortality (%) in patients with bleeding varices (group BV) compared with those in patients with known varices who did not bleed (group NBV)

Group BV Group NBV
Year 1 24.9 (4.40) 19.5 (1.80)
    Range 7.4–64.2 6.2–39.7
Year 2 32.2 (6.50) (n=9) 31.4 (3.45) (n=18)
    Range 14.7–71.1 9.6–52.6
Year 3 46.0 (7.31) (n=9)
    Range 16.9–80.2
Year 4 56.5 (8.33) (n=6)
    Range 33.6–82.7

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