Distal splenorenal shunt: Preferred treatment for recurrent variceal hemorrhage in the patient with well-compensated cirrhosis

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 385-388

  Elwood, David R ^a   Pomposelli, James J ^a   Pomfret, Elizabeth A ^a   Lewis, W David ^a   Jenkins, Roger L ^a   Benedict, Cosimi ^b   Atweh, Nabil ^b  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PANCREATITIS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PNEUMONIA; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENORENAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645868968     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.141.4.385     Document Type: Review

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