title: Favourable prognosis following variceal haemorrhage complicating hepatic sarcoidosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the case of a patient with bleeding oesophageal varices due to portal hypertension complicating hepatic sarcoidosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 43-year-old man.
  
  
  METHODS
  Six subsequent bleeds over 12 years were treated with sclerotherapy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Following sclerotherapy the patient has remained asymptomatic.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Portal hypertension due to sarcoid liver disease can have a favourable prognosis and early referral for port-systemic shunting may be inadvisable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Countess of Chester Hospital, UK.
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Mullins
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Youngs
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000209:etiology; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications*; D015911:Sclerotherapy