Hepatology • Vol 65 • No 2
September 2016 • Marcello Bianchini, Lesley De Pietri, Guadalupe García–Tsao, Erica Villa
Potential conflict of interest: Nothing to report. We read with interest the correspondence from Amarapurkar and Lo. We thank Dr. Amarapurkar et al. for their comments. We certainly agree that, based on the evidence, there is no need to correct coagulopathy in patients with liver cirrhosis undergoing invasive procedures. Dr. Amarapurkar's correspondence states that correction of coagulopathy is not considered standard of care, when previous guidelines (referenced in our article1) and current guidelines2 recommend …