Endovascular shunt reduction in the management of transjugular portosystemic shunt-induced hepatic encephalopathy: Preliminary experience with reduction stents and stent-grafts

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 659-664

  Maleux, Geert ^a   Verslype, Chris ^a   Heye, Sam ^a   Wilms, Guido ^a   Marchal, Guy ^a   Nevens, Frederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Grafts; Implantable devices; Interventional radiology; Liver disease; Vascular stents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLITEF IMPLANT; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION STENT; STENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847203287     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.05.1250     Document Type: Article

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