Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for gastric variceal bleeding: Its feasibility compared with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Korean Journal of Radiology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 109-116

  Choi, Young Ho ^a   Yoon, Chang Jin ^b   Park, Jae Hyung ^b   Chung, Jin Wook ^b,d   Kwon, Jong Won ^b   Choi, Guk Myung ^c  

^a Seoul National University Boramae Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Jeju National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Hypertension, portal; Interventional procedures, technology; Stomach, bleeding; Stomach, varices; Veins, therapeutic blockade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HEMOSTASIS; HEPATIC COMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEPSIS; SHUNTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH VARICES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY;

BALLOON OCCLUSION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0141905221     PISSN: 12296929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3348/kjr.2003.4.2.109     Document Type: Article

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