Cirrhosis is a very dangerous chronic disease with a high mortality rate. A serious complication of cirrhosis is rupture of esophageal varices causing gastrointestinal bleeding, the main cause of increased mortality in patients.

Cirrhosis is a condition in which liver cells are damaged continuously for a long time, scar tissue will continuously replace damaged tissue leading to cirrhosis. When scar tissue appears more and more, it will block blood flow through the liver, severely impairing liver function.