The Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt in the Treatment of Portal Hypertension: Current Status

Table 5

Comparison of TIPS and endoscopic and/or pharmacological therapy in the prevention of oesophageal variceal rebleeding (from Zheng et al. [59]).

Treatment	Number of patients	Rebleeding rate n (%)	Encephalopathy n (%)	Mortality n (%)
TIPS	440	86 (19)	148 (33)	111 (26)
Sclerotherapy /pharmacological therapy	443	194 (44)	86 (19)	98 (22)