A patient with portal hypertension and blindness after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 447-449

  Appenrodt, Beate ^a   Schepke, M ^a   Kuntz Hehner, S ^a   Schmiedel, A ^a   Sauerbruch, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastric varices; Histoacryl injection; Liver cirrhosis; Paradoxical embolism; Portal hypertension; Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Indexed keywords

ENBUCRILATE;

ADULT; ARM WEAKNESS; BLINDNESS; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH VARICES;

AGED; BLINDNESS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENBUCRILATE; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; IODIZED OIL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC;

EID: 33645107131     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042737-200604000-00022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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