Control of solitary gastric fundal varices and portosystemic encephalopathy accompanying liver cirrhosis by balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (B-RTO): A case report

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 26, 1999, Pages 1249-1252

  Ohmoto, Kenji ^a   Miyake, Ichiro ^a   Tsuduki, Masayuki ^a   Ohno, Seiichi ^a   Yamamoto, Shinichiro ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration; Gastric varices; Liver cirrhosis; Portosystemic encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BILE ACID; INDOCYANINE GREEN; MONOETHANOLAMINE OLEATE;

AGED; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BALLOON OCCLUDED RETROGRADE TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION; BILE ACID BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPY; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH VARICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032950847     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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