| This dominant hepatic fibrosis with minimal renal involvement leads to portal hypertension and varices. |
| Health results include varices at the lower end of the esophagus that can bleed severely. |
| Patients with evidence of hypersplenism and those having gastric fundal varices were not included in the study. |
| Endoscopic sclerotherapy is an effective method for the control of acute as well as long-term control of bleeding oesophageal varices. |
| Portal hypertension with bleeding varices is a serious complication of cirrhosis that can be treated surgically and with drug therapy. |
| Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed nonbleeding esophageal varices and congestive gastropathy. |
