Improved clinical outcome with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent-shunt utilizing polytetrafluoroethylene-covered stents

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 225-232

  Tripathi, Dhiraj ^a   Ferguson, James ^a   Barkell, Holly ^a   Macbeth, Kim ^a   Ireland, Hamish ^a   Redhead, Doris N ^a   Hayes, Peter C ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Polytetrafluoroethylene; Portal hypertension; Portosystemic shunt

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATENT; PATIENT; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; VARICOSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REOPERATION; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644599455     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042737-200603000-00001     Document Type: Article

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