Hepatic venous pressure gradient: Inaccurately estimates portal venous pressure gradient in alcoholic cirrhosis and portal hypertension

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of study patients

	Collateral branch (n = 26)	No collateral branch (n = 108)	P value
Sex (male/female)	24/2 (92.3/7.7%)	95/13 (88.0/12.0%)	0.776
Age (yr)1	52.3 ± 10.7	55.7 ± 10.6	0.143
Indications (n)			0.865
Gastrointestinal bleeding	17	60
Refractory ascites	7	39
Both	1	5
Other conditions	1	4
Child-Puph score1	7.2 ± 1.7	7.3 ± 1.7	0.878
Child-Pugh class			0.644
A	8 (30.8%)	44 (40.7%)
B	15 (57.7%)	53 (49.1%)
C	3 (11.5%)	11 (10.2%)
Hepatocellular carcinoma	3 (11.5%)	12 (11.1%)	> 0.999

¹Data are mean ± SD.