Is TIPS a cost-effective therapy for the prevention of variceal rebleeding?

Hepatology. 2002 Jul;36(1):259-60; author reply 260. doi: 10.1053/jhep.2002.34992.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / etiology
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / prevention & control*
  • Humans
  • Liver / blood supply*
  • Portasystemic Shunt, Transjugular Intrahepatic / economics*
  • Recurrence
  • Varicose Veins / complications*