Predicting death or recurrence of portal hypertension symptoms after TIPS procedures.

Background: Accurate prediction of portal hypertension recurrence after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement will improve clinical decision-making.

Purpose: To evaluate if perioperative variables could predict disease-free survival (DFS) in cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension (PHT) treated with TIPS.

Materials And Methods: We recruited 206 cirrhotic patients with PHT treated with TIPS, randomly assigned to training (n = 138) and validation (n = 68) sets.