Patient characteristics and propensity score matching
SVT
SVT, COMPLICATION
Five hundred ninety-three patients diagnosed with VV were treated by DS, among which 59 patients had the additional complication of SVT. Raw data were analyzed by the using of PSM with a caliper set to 0.1. Matching results are summarized in Fig. Distribution of propensity score before and after matchingPatients’ baseline characteristics before and after PSMContinuous variables that do not conform to normal distribution were represented by median and interquartile range, continuous variables that conform to a normal distribution were represented by mean and standard deviation representations; Categorical variables were expressed by quantity and percentage