A technique for controlled partial closure of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt tract in a patient with hepatic encephalopathy

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1957-1961

  Holden, Andrew ^a   Ng, Richard ^a   Gane, Ed ^a   Hill, Andrew ^a   McCall, John ^a  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; ENEMA; LACTULOSE; MICROLAX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; DROWSINESS; FLAPPING TREMOR; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROTHORAX; HYPERSPLENISM; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SHUNTING; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANGIOGRAPHY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33847669291     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.RVI.0000244850.39439.34     Document Type: Article

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