Carvedilol, Endoscopic Variceal Ligation or Combination of Both for Prevention of First Variceal Bleed in Child's B & C Cirrhosis

Summary

Study Design: Open labeled randomized controlled trial. The study will be conducted on patients attending outpatient or admitted to admitted to Department of Hepatology from January 2017 to December 2018 at ILBS, New Delhi

Timeline

Start

2017-03-15

Primary completion

2020-11-30

Completion

2020-11-30

Publications

• Tevethia HV, Pande A, Vijayaraghavan R, Kumar G, Sarin SK. Combination of carvedilol with variceal band ligation in prevention of first variceal bleed in Child-Turcotte-Pugh B and C cirrhosis with high-risk oesophageal varices: the 'CAVARLY TRIAL'. Gut. 2024 Oct 7;73(11):1844-1853. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2023-331181.

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