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

Table 6 Characteristics of the included studies on other endoscopic ultrasound-guided procedures and indications

Ref.	Topic	Type of study	Number of studies included in manuscript	Country	Number of patients	Mean age (years)	Male/female	Comments/major findings
Nimri et al[33]	EUS-LAMS	Retrospective	1	International	43	58.4	22/21 (49)	EUS-LAMS deployment resulted in mainly mild adverse events
Wilson et al[34]	EUS-guided cholecystojejunostomy	Prospective	1	United States	1	Unknown	0/1 (100)	Suggests that EUS-guided placement of chlecystojejunostomy LAMS may offer effective management of acute cholecystitis
Garg et al[35]	EUS-guided gallbladder drainage	Retrospective	1	United States, Spain	170	66.5 (cirrhosis), 71.3 (no cirrhosis)	29/18 (38.3) (cirrhosis), 68/55 (44.7) (no cirrhosis)	EUS-guided gallbladder drainage is effective in cirrhotic patients with a similar adverse event profile to non-cirrhotic patients
Lisotti et al[36]	EUS-guided elastography	Systematic review	14	N/A	52	Unknown	Unknown	Reviews and highlights potential benefits of EUS-guided elastography
AbiMansour et al[37]	EUS-guided shear wave elastography	Prospective	1	United States	256	54.5	144/112 (43.8)	EUS-guided shear wave elastography shows reliability in detecting liver stiffness
Wang et al[38]	EUS-guided shear wave elastography	Cross-sectional	1	United States	62	49.2	20/42 (66.7)	EUS-guided shear wave elastography is superior to Fibrosis-4 Index and vibration-controlled transient elastography
Diehl et al[39]	EUS-guided shear wave elastography	Prospective	1	United States	52	48.4	20/32 (61.5)	EUS-guided shear wave elastography is less accurate in the left lobe and overall comparable to vibration-controlled transient elastography
Fujii-Lau et al[40]	EUS-derived criteria for benign vs malignant hepatic masses	Retrospective	1	United States	332	64	199/133 (40)	Introduces EUS scoring system to distinguish benign from malignant hepatic masses
Nakai et al[41]	EUS-guided liver biopsy	Prospective	1	Japan	17	64	12/5 (29)	EUS-guided liver biopsy is safe and feasible
Laleman et al[42]	EUS-guided shunt obliteration and EUS-guided intrahepatic portosystemic shunt	Review	45	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A	Details future potential for intrahepatic portosystemic shunt
Rathi et al[43]	EUS-guided shunt obliteration	Prospective	1	India	7	54.3	Unknown	Shows technical success in EUS-guided transgastric shunt obliteration
Buscaglia et al[44]	EUS-guided intrahepatic portosystemic shunt	Prospective	1	United States	Pigs	N/A	N/A	EUS-guided intrahepatic portosystemic shunt is feasible and an alternative to transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

EUS: Endoscopic ultrasound; LAMS: Lumen-apposing metal stent; N/A: Not available.