Rectal variceal bleeding treated by transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt: Potentials and pitfalls

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 460-462

  Godil, Aslam ^a   McCracken, John D ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Portal hypertension; Portosystemic gradient; Rectal varices; Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSIS;

AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTUM; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 0030681021     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-199709000-00014     Document Type: Article

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