Table VI.

Survival comparison among various treatments for bleeding esophageal varices (Child’s class C, poor liver function)

Treatment	No. of patients	Survival rates (%)
		1 yr	2 yr	3 yr	4 yr	5 yr
Turcotte et al. (1973)
Nonselective shunt	50	36	32	22	20	17
Yamamoto et al. (1976)
Nonshunt operation	13	39	30	22	22	18
Warren et al. (1982)
Selective shunt	?	60*	53*	45*	40*	35*
Nonselective shunt	?	50*	40*	37*	20*	15*
Rikkers et al. (1984)
Shunt and nonshunt operation†	24	45	35*	30*	20*	17*
Chandler et al. (1985)
Shunt‡	30	36	30	25	20	13
Spence et al. (1985)
Nonshunt operation	25	70	53	38	38	35
Present study (1988)
Liver transplantation	302	79	74	71	71	71

^*Value estimated from survival curve.

^†Fifteen nonselective shunt, seven selective shunts, and two nonshunt operations.

^‡Both selective and nonselective operations.