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

Table 6 Comparison of different transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt studies in Budd-Chiari syndrome with the current study

Points of comparison	Mancuso et al[18]	Perelló et al[19]	Rössle et al[20]	Hernández-Guerra et al[21]	Current study
No. of patients	15	13	35	25 (9 covered stents)	13
Mean age in years (range)	40 (20-73)	36 (17-67)	43 (12-74)	40 (17-54)	29 (14-57)
Median child score	11	9	9	9	8
Acute, fulminant/chronic presentation	8/6	4/6	11/13	ND	2/11
Mean follow-up (mo)	24	48	37	20	18
Stent stenosis (%)	36	72	47	67 (19% covered stents)	38.4
Anticoagulation (%)	100	95	100	ND	100
Patients with acute presentation who died	4	ND	2	ND	0
Patients with chronic presentation who died	0	ND	1	ND	0
Death total (%)	30	10	9	0	0
Liver transplantation	0	1	2	0	0
Surgical portocaval shunt	0	2	0	0	0

ND: Not determined; Anticoagulation: Percent of patients who were adherent to anticoagulation therapy.