Progress in treatment of massive ascites and hepatorenal syndrome

Table 2 Important features of large prospective trials[11-14] comparing TIPS with paracentesis for massive ascites

	Rossle[11]	Gines[12]	Sanyal[13]	Salerno[14]
Patients/selected from pts.	60/155	70/119	109/525	66/137
Complete response (%)	79 vs 24	51 vs 17	58 vs 16	61 vs 3
Survival benefit of TIPS	yes	no	trend	yes
Number of centers	2	≥5	6	3
Child-Pugh C (%)	38	37	?	76
Athyltox. Zirrhose (%)	79	51	62	42
Severe encephalop. (%)	23 vs 13	60 vs 34	29 vs 18	61 vs 39
Mean TIPS Ø (mm)	9	8→10	10	?