Road to recompensation: Baveno VII criteria and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in liver cirrhosis

Table 1 Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt vs standard treatment for control of variceal bleed/ascites

Indication	Enrolled patients		Improvement of variceal bleed/ ascites1		Development of hepatic encephalopathy		Mortality
	TIPS, n	Standard2, n	TIPS, %	Standard, %	TIPS, %	Standard, %	TIPS, %	Standard, %
Control of variceal bleeding
Sauerbruch et al[11]	90	95	92	76	18	8	30	26
Lv et al[17]	84	45	86	73	35	36	18	36
Holster et al[18]	37	35	100	71	38	23	32	26
Hernández-Gea et al[19]	66	605	95.5	76.7	42.4	37.7	18	35
Control of refractory ascites
Lebrec et al[20]	13	12	69	0	15	0	69	33
Ginès et al[21]	35	35	51	17	77	66	57	51
Rössle et al[22]	29	31	61	18	58	48	52	74

¹Defined as no variceal rebleeding and no recurrence of ascites.

²Standard treatment = endoscopic ligation + B-blockers (for variceal bleed) and large volume paracentesis (for ascites).

TIPS: Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.