TIPS Versus Portacaval Shunt for Acute Bleeding Varices in Cirrhosis
TIPS Versus Portacaval Shunt for Acute Bleeding Varices in Cirrhosis
In unselected cirrhotic patients with acute portal hypertension-related bleeding to compare
 the effectiveness in control of bleeding, mortality rate, duration of life, quality of life,
 and economic costs of two widely used treatment measures: (1) emergency transjugular
 intrahepatic portal-systemic shunt (TIPS), and (2) emergency portacaval shunt.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  All patients with UGI bleeding who are shown to have the findings of cirrhosis and
 esophagogastric varices or portal hypertensive gastropathy and require 2 or more units
 of blood transfusion will be included.

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  None