How does transplant listing status and anticipated time-to-transplant influence your sequencing of TIPS versus elective hernia repair in candidates with refractory ascites and a symptomatic umbilical hernia?

The question is a bit unclear - what do you mean by TIPS versus elective hernia repair?

A TIPS may hasten incarceration of an umbilical hernia, so TIPS should really only be considered in the context of planned elective hernia repair.

Modeling data from Mahmud et al., PMID 36098965, suggest that when ...