Treatment of refractory hepatic hydrothorax with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt: Long-term results in 40 patients

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 529-534

  Siegerstetter, Volker ^a   Deibert, Peter ^a   Ochs, Andreas ^a   Olschewski, Manfred ^b   Blum, Hubert E ^a   Rössle, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Hydrothorax; Pleural effusion; Portosystemic shunt; Refractory ascites

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; SERUM ALBUMIN; SODIUM; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SCORING SYSTEM; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOCENTESIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; ASCITES; DIURETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROTHORAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035024385     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: 14735687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042737-200105000-00011     Document Type: Article

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