Statins After Variceal Bleeding Are Beneficial, but Still an Unexplained Mystery?

Gastroenterology. 2021 Dec;161(6):2067-2068. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2017.01.065. Epub 2021 Aug 28.

Authors

Priscilla Pollo-Flores¹, Jonel Trebicka²

Affiliations

¹ Internal Medicine Department, Fluminense Federal University, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brazil.
² Department of Internal Medicine I, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; European Foundation for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure, Barcelona, Spain.

PMID: 34464629
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2017.01.065

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Esophageal and Gastric Varices* / drug therapy
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / chemically induced
Humans
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors* / adverse effects
Hypertension, Portal*
Varicose Veins*

Substances

Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors