%0 Journal Article %T Vasoconstrictors in combination with proton pump inhibitors as an initial treatment of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in liver cirrhosis: is it evidence based? %A Gao, Fan %A Méndez-Sánchez, Nahum %A Qi, Xingshun %J Annals of Translational Medicine %D 2018 %B 2018 %9 %! Vasoconstrictors in combination with proton pump inhibitors as an initial treatment of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in liver cirrhosis: is it evidence based? %K %X Recently, an interesting Spanish multicenter cohort study by Ardevol et al . (1) found that the risk of further bleeding and 45-day mortality were statistically similar in cirrhotic patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) from varices and peptic ulcer. %U https://atm.amegroups.org/article/view/20887 %V 6 %N 16 %P 327 %@ 2305-5847