Urgent transjugular retrograde obliteration for prophylaxis of rebleeding from gastric varices in patients with a spontaneous portosplenorenal shunt

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-28

  Chikamori, Fumio ^a,c   Kuniyoshi, Nobutoshi ^a   Shibuya, Susumu ^b   Takase, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a Kuniyoshi Hospital   (India)

^b Tsukuba Soai Hospital   (Japan)

^c Kuniyoshi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bleeding isolated gastric varices; Spontaneous portosplenorenal shunt; Transjugular retrograde obliteration

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CYANOACRYLATE; IOPAMIDOL; SCLEROSING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BALLOON CATHETER; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTROTOMY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIGATION; MALE; MORTALITY; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; STOMACH VARICES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034107836     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000018796     Document Type: Article

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