Table 5.

Shunt surgery in portal hypertension and hepatic cirrhosis[93,95,96]

Shunt	Bypass of portal venous flow	Recurrent haemorrhage/complications
Porto-caval; end-to-side	Complete	Low rate of recurrent haemorrhage (< 5%)
		Low degree of shunt occlusion
		40% encephalopathy
		Increase in ascites
Porto-caval, side-to-side +/- interposition graft	Partial	Recurrent haemorrhage 5%
		Low degree of shunt occlusion (5%)
		5% encephalopathy
Distal splenorenal shunt (Warren)	Partial	Recurrent haemorrhage 5%-8%
		Shunt occlusion 10%
		Selective decompression of gastroesophageal varices