and this difference was more pronounced in patients with Child-Pugh A or B. We examined an unselected group of patients, who underwent screening endoscopy after diagnosis of cirrhosis. The majority of our patients was Child-Pugh class A or B (64.3 and 27.3%), respectively, and only 8.4% of the patients were Child-Pugh C in contrast to other studies where the majority suffered from advanced cirrhosis or were liver transplantation candidates. Furthermore, the main causes of liver cirrhosis in our study were equally distributed between viral hepatitis and alcohol, while in other studies alcoholic cirrhosis was the minority.