Baveno VI Criteria in Dynamic Monitoring of High-risk Varices in Compensated Cirrhotic Patients

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with liver cirrhosis diagnosed according to clinical or pathological criteria; 2. No decompensation events in the past, no ascites shown by ultrasound, no significant abnormality in liver function and coagulation function; 3. Willing to carry out routine diagnosis and treatment evaluation and follow-up liver stiffness test and gastroscopy; 4. Patients meet Baveno VI criteria (with a liver stiffness \<20kPa and with a platelet count \>150,000) at baseline, or patients don't meet Baveno VI criteria (with a liver stiffness ≥ 20kPa or with a platelet count ≤150,000) at baseline, but don't have varices requiring treatment (proved by endoscopy). 5. Voluntarily signed the informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with liver carcinoma; 2. Patients with portal vein thrombosis; 3. Patients with varices requiring treatment confirmed by gastroscopy during the screening period; 4. Patients who have received propranolol, ligation, sclerosis, splenectomy, transcatheter splenic arterial embolization, transjugular interhepatic portosystemicstent-shunt and other treatments to decrease portal hypertension in the past.