Balloon-Assisted Percutaneous Transhepatic Antegrade Embolization with 2-Octyl Cyanoacrylate for the Treatment of Isolated Gastric Varices with Large Gastrorenal Shunts

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

Characteristics	Patients
Age (years)	49.5 (26-81)
Sex (male/female)	16/14
Etiology of cirrhosis
HBV/HCV	17/1
Alcohol/autoimmunity/unknown	6/3/3
Child-Pugh classification
A/B/C	19/8/3
Location of gastric varices
IGV1	30
Form of gastric varices
F2	11
F3	19
Presence of red spots	14
Encephalopathy	2
Gastrorenal shunt	30
History of variceal bleeding	30
Follow-up period (mean)	30 months (2-80)