Disappearance of hepatic encephalopathy and improvement of liver function after surgical treatment of portal-systemic shunt in a patient with liver cirrhosis

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 52, 2003, Pages 1128-1132

  Moriya, Kei ^a   Kojima, Hideyuki ^a   Matsumura, Masahiko ^a   Sakurai, Shinya ^a   Imazu, Hiroo ^a   Uemura, Masahito ^a   Honda, Hiroyasu ^b   Fukui, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatic encephalopathy; Liver cirrhosis; Liver volume; Portal systemic shunt; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPAPLASTIN TEST; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; ILIAC VEIN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER WEIGHT; OVARIAN VEIN; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; AGED; AMMONIA; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MESENTERIC VEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL PRESSURE; PORTAL SYSTEM; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RENAL VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0038677090     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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