Table 1. Baseline Characteristics for Patients Who Underwent TIPS vs. BRTO for Isolated Gastric Varices.

	TIPS (n = 27)	BRTO (n = 25)	P
Demographics
Male	19	9	< 0.05
Mean age (years)†	58 (13)	59 (2.5)
Gastric varices etiology‡
Alcohol	14	6
Viral hepatitis (B and/or C)	10	9
NASH	4	2
Cryptogenic	2	4
Portal vein/splenic vein thrombosis	1	1
Primary biliary cirrhosis	0	1
Autoimmune hepatitis	0	1
Medication related cirrhosis*	0	1
Pre-procedure†
Ascites	5	7	0.27
Hepatic encephalopathy	1	1	0.27
Total bilirubin (mg/dL)	2.2 (1.4)	3.5 (7.2)	0.19
INR	1.5 (0.3)	1.4 (0.3)	0.95
Creatinine (mg/dL)	0.8 (0.3)	0.9 (0.3)	0.55
MELD score	13 (3.6)	14 (4.9)	0.21

^*Patient with hepatic C status post liver transplant and was thought to have drug related cirrhosis of allograft, ^†Numbers in parentheses represent standard deviation, ^‡Some patients had multiple etiologies (i.e., hepatitis C + alcohol). BRTO = balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration, INR = international normalized ratio, MELD = Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, NASH = nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, TIPS = transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts