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Afferents to gastric varices. The afferents to GV come from left gastric vein, short gastric veins and posterior gastric vein the left gastric vein mainly contributes to formation of cardiac varices whereas the short gastric vein and posterior gastric vein contribute to formation of fundal varices. Isolated gastric varices are more likely to be related to gastroepiploeic veins.
