Doppler Ultrasound Evaluation of Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Function: Pitfalls and Artifacts

Ultrasound Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 139-148

  Wachsberg, Ronald H ^a,b  

^a University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ultrasound Doppler studies, portal hypertension, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; PATIENT MONITORING; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNT INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTIFACTS; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; HEPATIC VEINS; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INCIDENCE; LIVER; PORTAL VEIN; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0142209334     PISSN: 08948771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013644-200309000-00004     Document Type: Article

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