A 68 year old man is admitted to the intensive by Dr. Laurence Bailen

Question 14 / 27: A 68 year old man is admitted to the intensive care unit with a massive upper GI bleed. He is

awaiting liver transplantation for advanced hepatitis C related cirrhosis. He is known to have

esophageal varices and you suspect this is the most likely cause of the bleeding.

Which of the following would you most likely expect to find in this patient?

A Thick walled esophageal varices

B Small varices (grade I)

C Hepatic vein pressure gradient less than 12mmHg

D Duodenal ulcer

E Hepatic vein pressure gradient greater than 12mmHg

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Attribution: Laurence Scott Bailen, Tamsin Knox, Paul Abourjaily, Fredric D. Gordon,Marshall Kaplan,Andrew G. Plaut. PPY 222 Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Spring 2007. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/47 (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

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