Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt: A successful treatment for hepatopulmonary syndrome

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 455-458

  Selim, Khaled M ^a   Akriviadis, Evangelos A ^a   Zuckerman, Eli ^a   Chen, David ^a   Reynolds, Telfer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANOXEMIA; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; SYNDROME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN;

EID: 0032033964     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1998.00455.x     Document Type: Article

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