Endoscopic ultrasound in the management of complications related to cirrhosis- recent evidence

Table 3 Characteristics of the included studies on endoscopic ultrasound management of gastric, gastroesophageal and ectopic varices

Ref.	Type of study	Number of studies included in manuscript	Country	Number of patients	Mean age (years)	Male/female	Comments/major findings
Dragomir et al[14]	Systematic review	23	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	EUS more reliable than conventional endoscopy for treatment of GV
Yang et al[15]	Systematic review	23	China	N/A	N/A	N/A	Outlines and recommends different EUS-guided variceal management techniques
Bahdi et al[16]	Prospective	1	United States	1	41	1/0 (0)	Successful outcome in EUS-guided coiling and cyanoacrylate injection of ectopic duodenal varices
Huang et al[5]	Prospective	1	United States	28	63	28/10 (36)	Data regarding EUS diagnosis of varices
Rudnick et al[17]	Systematic review	32	United States	N/A	N/A	N/A	Overall clinical success of EUS-guided GV therapies 100%, adverse event rated of 14%
Sarin et al[18]	Prospective	1	India	37	34.5, 36.1	37/10 (27.1)	EUS-guided cyanoacrylate is more effective for treatment of GV than sclerotherapy with alcohol
O’Rourke et al[20]	Retrospective	1	United Kingdom	20	59	20/9 (55)	EUS-guided GV obliteration with coil placement and thrombin is safe with acceptable medium-term efficacy
Liu et al[19]	Prospective	3	China	3	49.3	2/1 (33.3)	Three cases with successful outcomes of endoscopic sclerotherapy for jejunal ectopic varices
Robles-Medranda et al[21]	Prospective	1	Equador	60	61.8, 61.6	16/14 (46.7), 19/11 (36.7)	EUS-guided coil embolization with cyanoacrylate injection superior to coil treatment alone

EUS: Endoscopic ultrasound; GV: Gastric varices; N/A: Not available.