Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration (BRTO) for a Direct Shunt between the Inferior Mesenteric Vein and the Inferior Vena Cava in a Patient with Hepatic Encephalopathy

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-125

  Ibukuro, Kenji ^a   Sugihara, Toru ^a   Tanaka, Rei ^a   Fukuda, Hozumi ^a   Abe, Shoko ^a   Tobe, Kimiko ^a   Tateishi, Ryosuke ^a   Tagawa, Kazumi ^a  

^a MITSUI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BALLOON DILATATION; BALLOON OCCLUDED RETROGRADE TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CELIAC ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION; MESENTERIC VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; HEPATITIS C; METHODOLOGY;

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BALLOON OCCLUSION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MESENTERIC VEINS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 33947720320     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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