The long-term efficacy of the intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) for the treatment of bleeding anorectal varices in cirrhosis

Digestion

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 261-264

  Ory, Gaelle ^a   Spahr, Laurent ^a,b   Megevand, Jean Marie ^a   Becker, Christoph ^a   Hadengue, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b University Hospital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anorectal varices; Cirrhosis; Lower gastrointestinal bleeding; Portal hypertension; Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ANORECTAL VARICES; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; MESENTERIC VEIN; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VARICOSIS; VEIN DILATATION;

AGED; ANAL CANAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; RECTUM; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 0035714131     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000048871     Document Type: Article

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