Covered transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stents maintain lower portal pressure and require fewer reinterventions than uncovered stents

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 994-999

  Ockenga, Johann ^a   Kroencke, T J ^a   Schuetz, T ^a   Plauth, M ^a   Kasim, E ^a   Petersein, J ^a   Schmidt, H H J ^a   Lochs, H ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ascites; Cost benefit analysis; Intrahepatic; Liver cirrhosis; Portal hypertension; Portosystemic shunt; Transjugular

Indexed keywords

NITINOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENDOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL PRESSURE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 6344249485     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520410003443     Document Type: Article

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