Figure 4From: Effect of antiviral therapy on the survival and incidence of major complications in HBV-associated cirrhotic patients after splenectomy for hypersplenism and portal hypertensionCumulative complication-free survival plotted using the Kaplan–Meier method and compared using log-rank test in the patients aged ≤ 40 years (A) and those aged > 40 years (B). In both the patients aged ≤ 40 years and those aged > 40 years, antiviral treatment was associated with a higher complication-free survival but no statistic significance (P = 0.080 and P = 0.546, respectively).Back to article page