Curve Your Enthusiasm: The Decision to Use Expanded or Original Baveno VI Criteria to Exclude High-Risk Varices

The Baveno VI criteria for predicting esophageal varices: validation in real life practice.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS According to the Baveno VI consensus, patients with liver stiffness < 20 kPa and a platelet count > 150,000 ul have very low risk of clinically significant varices and do not need a screening endoscopy. The aim of this study was to evaluate non-invasive methods as predictors of esophageal varices according to the Baveno VI recommendations, in real life clinical practice. M...

Non-invasive diagnosis of esophageal varices after Baveno VI.

A major complication of portal hypertension in patients with cirrhosis is the development of esophageal varices with the associated risk of variceal bleeding. Hence, the Baveno consensus on portal hypertension in its first five editions had recommended surveillance with periodic upper endoscopies in these patients to identify in a timely fashion the development of esophageal varices and initiat...

 Report of the Baveno VI Consensus Workshop.

The latest update of the Baveno consensus was held on April 10-11 of 2015 in Baveno, Italy. The meeting led by Professor Robert deFranchis started in 1986 and has been held approximately every 5 years with a publication following each meeting. This latest Baveno VI workshop was attended by the “who is who” in world of portal hypertension; mainly experts responsible for most data produced in the...

Decision criteria in risk analysis : an application of stochastic dominance with respect to a function

Risk Acceptance Criteria and/or Decision Optimization

Ove DITLEVSEN Professor, dr. techn. Department of Structural Engineering Technical University of Denmark DK 2800 Lyngby Ove Ditlevsen, born 1935, got his civil engineering degree 1959, his degree of dr. techn. 1971, both from the Technical University of Denmark. Professor of applied mathematics at the Danish Engineering Academy until 1984. Since then research professor (until 1991) and professo...