Influence of portal hypertension and its early decompression by TIPS placement on the outcome of variceal bleeding

Hepatology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 793-801

  Monescillo, Alberto ^a   Martínez Lagares, Francisco ^a   Ruiz Del Arbol, Luis ^b   Sierra, Angel ^a   Guevara, Clemencia ^a   Jiménez, Elena ^a   Marrero, José Miguel ^a   Buceta, Enrique ^a   Sánchez, Juan ^b   Castellot, Ana ^a   Peñate, Mónica ^a   Cruz, Ana ^a   Peña, Elena ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC VENOUS PRESSURE GRADIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; LIVER VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VENOUS PRESSURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 4644298640     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.20386     Document Type: Article

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