Emergency endoscopic variceal ligation following variceal rupture in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and portal vein tumor thrombosis: a retrospective study

Table 5 Independent prognostic factors for overall survival (multivariate analysis)

Variable	Hazard ratio	95 % CI	p value
Prothrombin time <68 %	1.383	0.742–2.575	0.3071
Child-Pugh class A/B	0.398	0.205–0.773	0.0065
AFP-L3 < 37.4 %	0.464	0.251–0.860	0.0147

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