Management of Bleeding in Extrahepatic Portal Venous Obstruction

Table 1

Followup results with endoscopic variceal eradication therapy.

Author (yr)	No. of patients	Eradication (%)	Rebleed (%)	Recurrence (%)	Followup period
Howard et al. (1988) [3]	33	100	9	6	35 months
Chawla et al. (1990) [4]	122	91	16	6	24 months
Stringer and Howard (1994) [5]	32	100	31	16	8.7 years
Zargar et al. (2004) [6]	69	91	12	14	15 years
Thomas et al. (2009) [7]	198	100	17	19	20 years