Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao MD

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases); Chief, Digestive Diseases, VA-CT Healthcare System; Director, Clinical and Translational Core, Yale Liver Center; Program Director, VA-CT Hepatitis C Resource Center


Departments & Organizations

Yale Medical Group

Internal Medicine: Digestive Diseases: Gastroenterology; Hepatology: Viral Hepatitis Program, Liver Center

Molecular Virology

Research Interests

Cirrhosis; natural history of cirrhosis; gastroesophageal varices; variceal hemorrhage; ascites; spontaneous bacterial peritonitis; hepatorenal syndrome


Clinical Interests

Cirrhosis and its complications; acute and chronic hepatitis; alcoholic liver disease; drug-induced hepatotoxicity; cholestatic liver disease, including primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis


Education

  • M.D., Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico , 1977

Selected Publication

  • Garcia-Tsao, G. Treatment of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis with oral ofloxacin. Inpatient or outpatient therapy? Gastro 111:1147-1150, 1996.