Short-Term Effects and Early Complications of Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration for Gastric Varices

Table 4

Comparison of demographic variables between the patients with and without pleural effusion after BRTO.

Pleural effusion	Yes (𝑛=31)	No (𝑛=46)	P value
Age (years)	63.9 ± 11.2	60.0 ± 12.6	0.1631
Gender			0.7937
Male	20	31
Female	11	15
Timing of treatment			0.5737
Emergency cases	7	8
Prophylactic cases	24	38
Etiology			0.8896
Viral infection	16	23
No viral infection	15	23
Serum albumin (g/dL)	3.05 ± 0.44	3.34 ± 0.66	0.0412 *
Serum total bilirubin; (mg/dL)	1.40 ± 0.99	1.17 ± 0.44	0.1742
Prothrombin time (%)	71.00 ± 13.09	73.89 ± 13.31	0.3459
Platelets (×10^4 μL)	8.37 ± 2.76	9.69 ± 4.22	0.1367
Child-Pugh score	7.58 ± 1.48	6.96 ± 1.79	0.1144
Hepatocellular carcinoma			0.9704
Present	12	18
Absent	19	28
CT findings
Ascites	17	9	0.0019 *
Thrombus	4	3	0.3479

* 𝑃<0.05.