Table 1.

Antibiotics compared to placebo in acute variceal bleed.

Author	Outcome	Drugs	Placebo (n) P	Antibiotics (n) A	Infections P versus A	efficacy
Pauwels et al. [27]	Bacterial infections	ciprofloxacin and a amoxicillin and clavulanic acid	34	30	53% versus 13%	A > P
Soriano et al. [30]	Bacterial infection	Norflox	59	60	10% versus 37%	A > P
Hsieh et al. [28]	Bacterial infection	ciprofloxacin	60	60	45% versus 10%	A > P
Jun et al. [29]	Bacterial infection	Cefotaxime	62	58	16% versus 3%	A > P