Cerebral Edema and Hyperammonemia After Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement in a Cirrhotic Patient

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1054-1056

  Kavitt, Robert T ^a   Yang, Vincent L ^a   Jensen, Donald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; LACTULOSE; MANNITOL; RIFAXIMIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCITES; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ENDOPROSTHESIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LETHARGY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARACENTESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SEIZURE; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT;

BRAIN EDEMA; HUMANS; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL;

EID: 50649113720     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2008.04.020     Document Type: Article

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