Embolization of portal-systemic shunts in cirrhotic patients with chronic recurrent hepatic encephalopathy

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 120-124

  Sakurabayashi, Shin ^a   Sezai, Shuichi ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Hirano, Masanori ^a   Oka, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embolization; Hepatic encephalopathy; Liver cirrhosis; Portal systemic shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; KIDNEY VEIN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AMMONIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; RECURRENCE; RENAL VEINS; SPLENIC VEIN; STOMACH;

EID: 0030985540     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002709900118     Document Type: Article

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