Outcome of non surgical hepatic decompression procedures in Egyptian patients with Budd-Chiari

Table 4 Clinical data of patients before and after intervention

	Before intervention		One year after intervention		P value	Sig
	+VE	-VE	+VE	-VE
Patients with occluded shunts (n = 3)
Abdominal pain	3	0	2	1	> 0.05	NS
Jaundice	1	2	0	3	> 0.05	NS
Lower limb edema	2	1	1	2	> 0.05	NS
Dilated veins	1	2	0	3	> 0.05	NS
Ascites	3	0	3	0	> 0.05	NS
Patients with patent shunts (n = 22)
Abdominal pain	20	2	1	21	< 0.001	VHS
Jaundice	8	14	0	22	< 0.01	HS
Lower limb edema	8	14	1	21	< 0.05	S
Dilated veins	4	18	0	22	> 0.05	NS
Ascites	21	1	1	21	< 0.001	VHS

Sig: Significance; NS: Non significant; S: Significant; HS: Highly significant; VHS: Very highly significant; -VE: Negative; +VE: Positive.