Figure 3From: Endoscopic sclerotherapy compared with no specific treatment for the primary prevention of bleeding from esophageal varices. A randomized controlled multicentre trial [ISRCTN03215899]Kaplan-Meier plot showing the percentage of surviving patients (S: sclerotherapy group; C: control group). Overall survival (black lines) was comparable. Mortality due to variceal bleeding (dotted lines) in the sclerotherapy group was significantly lower than in the control group (p = 0.01)Back to article page