How to clarify the Baveno VI criteria for ruling out varices needing treatment by noninvasive tests.

Paul CalèsFrançois BuissonFederico RavaioliArthur BergerCarlotta CarboniGiovanni MarascoDavide Festi

Published in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2018)

The definitions of missed VNT rate placing VNT or spared endoscopy as the denominator are appropriate, providing, respectively, sensitivity and NPV for VNT. We privilege the first since it corresponds to the true proportion of missed VNT.

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