Background. The Rockall, Glasgow-Blatchford, and AIMS65 are useful and validated 
scoring systems for predicting the outcomes of patients with nonvariceal 
gastrointestinal bleeding. However, there are no validated evidence for using 
them to predict outcomes on variceal bleeding. The aim of this study was to 
evaluate and compare the prognostic accuracy of different nonvariceal bleeding 
scores with other liver-specific scoring systems in cirrhotic patients.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: A retrospective multicenter study that included 160 
cirrhotic patients with acute variceal bleeding. The AUROC's to predict 
in-hospital mortality, and rebleeding, were analyzed for each scoring system.
RESULTS: Overall in-hospital mortality occurred in 13% and in-hospital 
rebleeding in 12% of patients. The systems with the best AUROC value for 
predicting mortality were MELD (0.828; 95% CI 0.748-0.909), and AIMS65 (0.817; 
95% CI 0.724-0.909). The best score systems for predicting rebleeding were 
Glasgow-Blatchford (0.756; 95% CI 0.640- 0.827), and Rockall (0.691; 95% CI 
0.580-0.802).
CONCLUSIONS: In addition to liver-specific scores, the AIMS65 score is accurate 
for predicting in-hospital mortality in cirrhotic patients with acute variceal 
bleeding. Other scoring systems might be useful for predicting significant 
clinical outcomes in these patients.