Efficacy of balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration, percutaneous transhepatic obliteration and combined techniques for the management of gastric fundal varices

Table 2 Results of 93 patients treated with radiologic embolotherapy for gastric varices n (%)

Results	BRTO		PTO		Com-T		Total
Complete disappearance of gastric varices	75		8		10		93
Variceal rebleeding	1	(1)	1	(13)	0		2	(2)
Recurrence of gastric varices	3	(4)	3	(38)	0		6	(7)
Aggravation of esophageal varices	27	(36)	3	(38)	3	(30)	33	(36)
Death	21	(28)	0		2	(30)	23	(25)
Cause of death
Hepatic failure	8	(11)	0		1	(10)	9	(10)
Hepatocellular carcinoma	8	(11)	0		0		8	(9)
Cerebral hemorrhage	2	(3)	0		0		2	(2)
Renal failure	2	(3)	0		0		2	(2)
Pneumonia	1	(1)	0		0		1	(1)
Psychosis	0		0		1	(10)	1	(1)