Abstract:Background: Patients who survived the initial esophagogastric variceal bleeding (EVB) experienced an increased risk of recurrent bleeding and death, but a reliable predictive model is lacking. We aim to develop and validate a model for rebleeding prediction in cirrhotic patients with EVB after modified percutaneous transhepatic variceal embolization (PTVE) with cyanoacrylate.Methods: A total of 122 patients with EVB who underwent PTVE from January 2015 to March 2020 were enrolled in this study. The multivariat… Show more
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