Clinical characteristics and predictors of esophagogastric variceal bleeding among patients with HCV-induced liver cirrhosis: An observational comparative study

• Saad El Deen Mohamed El Sheref ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Saadeldeenelsharef@gmail.com

  Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University Hospital, New Damietta, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9813-9777

  ⨯
• Shimaa Afify,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gastroenterology Department, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt

  ⨯
• Mahmoud S. Berengy

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University Hospital, New Damietta, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9925-9279

  ⨯