No. Just bleeds them dry or vamps them.
The blood pressure is often low, and there may be signs of bleeding from other organs (like coughing up blood, nose bleeds, blood in the urine).
A rough guesstimate is that I currently experience 8+ serious bleeds a year.
Not everyone who has varices and who bleeds will be bleeding from varices.
Removing these scales exposes tender skin, which bleeds and causes the plaques (inflamed patches of skin) to grow.