Preshunt and postshunt portal vein pressures and portal vein-to-inferior vena cava pressure gradients do not predict outcome following partial portal decompression

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 70-74

  Rosemurgy, Alexander S ^a,b   Bloomston, Mark ^a   Ghassemi, Poopak ^a   Serafini, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; DEATH; DECOMPRESSION; FOLLOW UP; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PROGNOSIS; SHUNTING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0036047161     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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