@article{AMJ3709,
author = {Martin Rössle and Michael Schultheiss},
title = {Commentary on “Covered TIPS for secondary prophylaxis of variceal bleeding in liver cirrhosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials”},
journal = {AME Medical Journal},
volume = {2},
number = {3},
year = {2017},
keywords = {},
abstract = {The meta-analysis on Covered TIPS for secondary prophylaxis of variceal bleeding in liver cirrhosis (1) compares covered TIPS with medical treatment consisting of drugs and endoscopic ligation. Previous meta-analyses (2-5) are now obsolete because they included studies which exclusively deployed bare stents and whose medical arms applied treatments that are no more state of the art (e.g., sclerotherapy).},
issn = {2520-0518}, url = {https://amj.amegroups.org/article/view/3709}
}