Eligibility criteria for participating sites and investigators
decompensated cirrhosis
DECOMPENSATED CIRRHOSIS
The participating site must be equipped with the appropriate resources to fulfill the clinical study requirements as described in the protocol. All sites are centers with a multidisciplinary team (including hepatologists, interventional radiologists (in the case the TIPS are placed by them), intensive care and general surgery with expertise in liver surgery and ideally liver transplantation) and experience in the treatment of patients with decompensated cirrhosis. It is known that the adjusted mortality rate after TIPS placement decreased in centers which placed more than 20 TIPS per year [