Effects of Terlipressin When Usual Somatostatin or Octreotide Dose Fails

Inclusion Criteria: * Cirrhosis patients admitted to Emergency Department because of acute variceal bleeding Exclusion Criteria: * No signs of variceal bleeding are found by endoscopy or portal hypertensive gastropathy is responsible for the bleeding * Patients undergo endoscopy after 72h from the beginning of acute variceal bleeding * Patients with hepatorenal syndrome * Patients with ischemia organic cardiopathy (including myocardial infarction or unstable angina pectoris) or myocardial ischemia indicated by ECG in the past 6 months * Patients allergic to/with contraindications of vasoactive drugs