Esophageal Variceal Ligation Monotherapy versus Combined Ligation and Sclerotherapy for the Treatment of Esophageal Varices

Table 2

Comparison of treatment times, total hospital stay, and total costs between the two groups.

Items	EIS + EVL group (n = 44)	EVL group (n = 40)	value
Treatment times (times)	2.3 ± 0.6	3.2 ± 0.8	<0.001
Total hospital stay (days)	14.5 ± 3.4	23.5 ± 5.9	<0.001
Total costs (renminbi)	23918.6 ± 4220.4	26165.2 ± 4765.1	0.044

Values are given as mean ± SD.