Research Article
Endoscopic Treatment as the Rescue Therapy for Recurrent Bleeding after Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS)
Table 3
Detail of endoscopic treatments and outcomes.
| | Patient | Child-Pugh classification | Endoscopic treatment | Use of NSBB during follow-up | Rebleeding | Time interval of rebleeding (d) | Death | Time interval of death (d) | Cause of death |
| | 1 | C | EVL | None | Present | 7 | Present | 14 | Rebleeding | | 2 | C | EVL+gastric variceal cyanoacrylate injection | Carvedilol | Present | 422 | Absent | / | / | | 3 | C | EVL+gastric variceal cyanoacrylate injection | Propranolol | Absent | / | Absent | / | / | | 4 | A | EVL+gastric variceal cyanoacrylate injection | None | Absent | / | Absent | / | / | | 5 | B | EVL | None | Present | 9 | Present | 18 | Rebleeding | | 6 | A | BRTO-assisted endoscopic cyanoacrylate injection | None | Present | 789 | Present | 792 | Rebleeding |
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EVL: endoscopic variceal ligation; BRTO: balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration.
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