fifty patients with portal hypertension and bleeding varices aged 10 months to 72 years were treated with a modified sugiura , nonshunt operation ( n = 26 ) or shunting procedures ( n = 24 ) in accordance with the following predetermined therapeutic protocol : after resuscitation and diagnostic endoscopy , an emergency mesocaval shunt procedure was carried out if bleeding could not be stopped ( group 1 , n = 10 ) .
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