Effect of Spontaneous Portosystemic Shunts on Hemorrhage from Esophagogastric Varices

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-28

  Hsieh, Jan Sing ^a   Wang, Jaw Yuan ^a   Huang, Che Jen ^a   Chen, Fang Ming ^a   Huang, Tsung Jen ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAVA VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVASCULARIZATION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR MESENTERIC CAVAL SHUNT; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEAN PORTAL PRESSURE; MESENTERIC VEIN; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PORTOUMBILICAL SHUNT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SHUNTING; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; UMBILICAL VEIN; VEIN LIGATION;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LIGATION; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL SYSTEM; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 0345742609     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-7068-7     Document Type: Article

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