TIPS for refractory ascites: A single-centre experience

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1089-1095

  Thalheimer, Ulrich ^a   Leandro, Gioacchino ^a   Samonakis, Dimitrios N ^a   Triantos, Christos K ^a   Senzolo, Marco ^a   Fung, Konrad ^a   Davies, Neil ^a   Patch, David ^a   Burroughs, Andrew K ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Encephalopathy; Portal hypertension; Refractory ascites; TIPS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARACENTESIS; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VEIN DILATATION;

ASCITES; DILATATION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARACENTESIS; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350023219     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-009-0099-6     Document Type: Article

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