This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows:
To assess the benefits and harms of any type of selective shunt versus any type of non-selective shunt for the prevention of ...
BACKGROUND : Variceal haemorrhage that is refractory or recurs after pharmacologic and endoscopic therapy requires a portal decompression shunt
(either surgical shunts or radiologic shunt, transjugular intrahepatic ...
