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

Table 6

Univariate analysis of prognostic factors affecting overall survival after BRTO.

Variable	𝑃 value
Age (≥70 y)	0.2667
Gender (male)	0.2714
Emergency cases	0.1547
Etiology (viral)	0.3892
Alb (≥3.0 g/dL)	0.1371
T-bil (≥1.4 mg/dL)	0.8149
PT (≥70%)	0.9645
Platelets (≥8.0 × 10^4 μL)	0.6529
Child-Puge classification B/C	0.023
HCC (present)	0.0005
Esophageal varices (present)	0.5296
Ascites (present)	0.095
Pleural effusion (present)	0.064
Thrombus (present)	0.8823

Alb: serum albumin, T-bil: serum total bilirubin, PT: prothrombin time, HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma.