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Endoscopic parameters
| Grade of esophageal varices | Number of patients |
| Grade 3 or 4 | 8 |
| Grade 2 | 2 |
| ESL sessions | 1 |
| Follow-up ES sessions (median, range) | 2 (0-3) |
| Total ESL + ES sessions (median, range) | 3 (1-4) |
| Gastric varices | |
| Before eradication of esophageal varicesa | 1 |
| After eradication of esophageal varices | 0 |
| Portal hypertensive gastropathy | |
| Before | 1 |
| After | 3 |
| Deathb | 2 |
The patient received n-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate for large gastric (fundal) varices,
Liver failure.
