The successful treatment of symptomatic, refractory hepatic hydrothorax with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Hepatology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1366-1369

  Gordon, Fredric D ^a   Anastopoulos, Harry T ^a   Crenshaw, William ^a,c   Gilchrist, Brian ^a,b   Mceniff, Niall ^a   Falchuk, Kenneth R ^a   Locicero III, Joseph ^a   Lewis, W David ^a   Jenkins, Roger L ^a   Trey, Charles ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Greater Baltimore Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^c GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOCENTESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROTHORAX; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030913325     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510250611     Document Type: Article

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