Defining the advantages and exposing the limitations of endoscopic variceal ligation in controlling acute bleeding and achieving complete variceal eradication

Table 1 Number of banding procedures and time to eradication of varices

Child-Pughgrade	Number of patients	Survival > 90 d	Numbereradicated	Number of banding proceduresmedian (range)	Months to eradicatemedian (range)	Number recurred
A	n = 32	32	15	3 (1-13)	15 (1-55)	9
B	n = 48	44	18	2 (1-12)	4 (1-29)	12
C	n = 60	35	17	2 (1-5)	3 (1-47)	10
Total	n = 140	111	50	2 (1-13)	5 (1-55)	13