Biliary-Venous Fistula Complicating Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Presenting with Recurrent Bacteremia, Jaundice, Anemia and Fever

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1604-1607

  Jawaid, Qaiser ^a   Saeed, Zahid A ^a   Di Biscegliea, Adrian M ^a   Brunt, Elizabeth M ^a   Ramrakhiani, Sanjay ^a   Varma, Chintalapati R ^a   Solomon, Harvey ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biliary venous fistula; Orthotopic liver transplant; TIPS

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFTRIAXONE; FLUCONAZOLE; IMIPENEM; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BILE DUCT FISTULA; BILE LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL FISTULA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEVER; HEPATIC DUCT; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH VARICES;

ANEMIA; BACTEREMIA; BILIARY TRACT; FEVER; FISTULA; HUMANS; JAUNDICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; VEINS;

EID: 0348012979     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1600-6135.2003.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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