Ishikawa T, et al. - In portal hypertension patients, researchers assessed predictive factors of Model for End-Stage Liver Disease-sodium score reductions and improvements in vital prognoses after portosystemic shunt occlusion. Between February 2008 and March 2017, 70 cirrhotic subjects with major portosystemic shunts and a mean Model for End-Stage Liver Disease-sodium score of 10.5 had balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration. Results of this study suggested that liver stiffness measured by transient elastography could forecast improvements in Model for End-Stage Liver Disease-sodium scores and survival rates after portosystemic shunt occlusion in portal hypertension patients.