Hepatic encephalopathy due to intrahepatic portosystemic venous shunt successfully treated by interventional radiology

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 212-216

  Hiraoka, Atsushi ^b   Kurose, Kiyotaka ^b   Hamada, Maho ^b   Azemoto, Nobuaki ^b   Tokumoto, Yoshio ^b   Hirooka, Masashi ^b   Hasabe, Aki ^b   Kumagi, Teru ^b   Hirata, Mami ^a   Michitaka, Kojiro ^b   Minami, Hisaka ^b   Murakami, Masato ^c   Isobe, Yoshinori ^d   Horiike, Norio ^b   Onji, Morikazu ^b  

^a Matsuyama Joto Hospital   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Murakami Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^d KITASATO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatic encephalopathy; Intrahepatic portosystemic shunt; Liver dysfunction; Transcatheter embolization

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; LACTULOSE;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLAPPING TREMOR; HAND SURGERY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER WEIGHT; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT MONITORING; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; PORTOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 20244374118     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.212     Document Type: Article

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