Title: Timing of endoscopy in patients with cirrhosis and acute variceal bleeding: A single-
center retrospective study
Version: 2 Date: 10 Dec 2022
Reviewer's report:
The article is very interesting and tries to resolve an important issue such as the time to perform
urgent endoscopy  in variceal bleeding. It is well written and offers interesting data.
1.- The authors should make an effort to collect mortality at 6 weeks. This data would offer very
relevant information.
2.- I think that follow up the results is arduous and they are difficult to understand, the analysis
that the authors carry out on subgroups increases the difficulty in understanding them and does
not add much relevant information, so it seems to me that it could be eliminated or mentioned
that it has been done and leave it all in supplementary material.
3.- As mentioned in methods, the authors collected the patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Did they meet all the Milan criteria? Was the presence of hepatocellular carcinoma the same
between groups?
Title: Timing of endoscopy in patients with cirrhosis and acute variceal bleeding: A single-
center retrospective study
Version: 2 Date: 10 Dec 2022
Reviewer's report:
The article is very interesting and tries to resolve an important issue such as the time to perform
urgent endoscopy  in variceal bleeding. It is well written and offers interesting data.
1.- The authors should make an effort to collect mortality at 6 weeks. This data would offer very
relevant information.
2.- I think that follow up the results is arduous and they are difficult to understand, the analysis
that the authors carry out on subgroups increases the difficulty in understanding them and does
not add much relevant information, so it seems to me that it could be eliminated or mentioned
that it has been done and leave it all in supplementary material.
3.- As mentioned in methods, the authors collected the patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Did they meet all the Milan criteria? Was the presence of hepatocellular carcinoma the same
between groups?
Please review this paper.
user
Title: Timing of endoscopy in patients with cirrhosis and acute variceal bleeding: A single-
center retrospective study
Version: 2 Date: 10 Dec 2022
Reviewer's report:
The article is very interesting and tries to resolve an important issue such as the time to perform
urgent endoscopy  in variceal bleeding. It is well written and offers interesting data.
1.- The authors should make an effort to collect mortality at 6 weeks. This data would offer very
relevant information.
2.- I think that follow up the results is arduous and they are difficult to understand, the analysis
that the authors carry out on subgroups increases the difficulty in understanding them and does
not add much relevant information, so it seems to me that it could be eliminated or mentioned
that it has been done and leave it all in supplementary material.
3.- As mentioned in methods, the authors collected the patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Did they meet all the Milan criteria? Was the presence of hepatocellular carcinoma the same
between groups?
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