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The best available treatment for poal hypeensive gastropathy is:

A
Beta blocker
B
TIPS
C
Surgical poacaval shunt
D
Liver transplantation
High-Yield Explanation
Poal hypeensive gastropathy (PHG) is the ectatic blood vessels in the proximal gastric body and cardia causing oozing of the blood. Less severe grades of PHG appear as a mosaic or snakeskin pattern and are not associated with bleeding. Severe PHG with diffuse bleeding is treated by b-adrenergic receptor blockers or possibly with placement of a TIPS or surgical poacaval shunt. The best treatment is liver transplantation Ref:Sleisenger and Fordtran's,E-9,P-300.

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