The role of the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent shunt (TIPSS) in the management of bleeding gastric varices: Clinical and haemodynamic correlations

Gut

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 270-274

  Tripathi, D ^a   Therapondos, G ^a   Jackson, E ^b   Redhead, D N ^a   Hayes, P C ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH VARICES;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036073922     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.51.2.270     Document Type: Article

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