Emergency balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration of ruptured gastric varices

Table 1 Patient characteristics and clinical outcomes

Case	Age (yr)	Sex	Cause of LC	Child-Pugh	Temporary	Drainage	Dose of 5%	Eradication	Worsening	Follow-up	Clinical
				class	hemostasis	route	EOI (mL)	of GV	of EV	time (d)	outcome
1	63	M	HCV	B	Spontaneous	GR	30	Complete	–	205	Alive
2	59	M	HBV	B	Spontaneous	GR	40	Complete	+	2229	Alive
3	58	F	PBC	A	Spontaneous	GR	18	Complete	–	2197	HF1
4	67	M	HCV	A	Spontaneous	GR	12	Complete	–	2529	HCC2
5	79	F	Unknown	C	Spontaneous	GR	35	Complete	–	135	HF1
6	46	M	HCV	B	Balloon	GR	36	Complete	–	388	Alive
7	66	F	Alcohol	B	Spontaneous	GR	10 + 17	Complete	+	2739	HF1
8	59	M	Alcohol	B	Spontaneous	GC	18	Complete	–	1501	Alive
9	70	M	HCV	B	Spontaneous	GR	17	Complete	–	8	Alive
10	33	F	Unknown	B	Balloon	GR	30 + 10	Complete	–	1293	Alive
11	46	M	HBV	C	Balloon	GR	36 + 23	Complete	–	41	Alive
12	57	M	HBV	B	Balloon	GR	30 + 28	Complete	+	164	HF1
13	66	M	Alcohol	B	Balloon	GR	18 + 13	Partial	–	14	HF1
14	65	F	HCV	B	Balloon	GR	10 + 8	Complete	–	1130	Alive
15	51	M	HCV	B	Balloon	GR	36	Complete	+	2466	HF1
16	53	M	Alcohol	C	Balloon	GR	15	Complete	+	545	HF1
17	62	F	HCV	B	Spontaneous	GR	20 + 2	Complete	–	1835	Alive

¹Died of hepatic failure (HF);

²Died of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). LC: Liver cirrhosis; PBC: Primary biliary cirrhosis; HCV: Hepatitis C virus; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; GR: Gastrorenal shunt; GC: Gastrocaval shunt; EOI: Ethanolamine oleate iopamidol; GV: Gastric varices; EV: Esophageal varices.