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Flowchart of patient population selection: 278 patients who received balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) or transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) from January 2005 to December 2014 were recruited. After excluding 102 patients based on the criteria above, 176 patients remained for statistical analysis.
EV, esophageal varices; GV, gastric varices.
