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

Table 7 Characteristics of the included studies on safety profiles of endoscopic ultrasound procedures in cirrhosis

Ref.	Topic	Type of study	Number of studies included in manuscript	Country	Number of patients	Mean age (years)	Male/female	Comments/major findings
Facciorusso et al[45]	Safety of EUS-guided fine needle aspiration	Retrospective	1	Italy	190	64	114/76 (40)	The rate of adverse events of EUS-guided fine needle aspiration is higher in cirrhotic patients
Garg et al[35]	Safety of 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)	Similar adverse events were seen in cirrhotic patients vs non-cirrhotic patients in EUS-guided gallbladder drainage
Gadour et al[11]	Safety of EUS-guided liver abscess drainage and GV management	Systematic review and meta-analysis	45	10 countries worldwide	N/A	N/A	N/A	EUS-guided GV management and liver biopsy have low complication rates
Choi et al[9]	Safety of EUS-guided portal pressure gradient measurement and liver biopsy	Retrospective	1	United States	83	59.4	51/32 (39)	Demonstrated no adverse events in EUS-guided portal pressure gradient measurement and liver biopsy

EUS: Endoscopic ultrasound; GV: Gastric varices.