Utility of MELD 3.0 and MELD-Na in Predicting Long-term Mortality and Rebleeding after Endoscopic Hemostasis for Acute Variceal Hemorrhaging in Patients with Cirrhosis.

The need for red blood cell transfusion and esophageal varices compared to gastric varices demonstrated a trend towards an increased mortality risk, although these associations did not reach statistical significance ( Table 2 ).

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