Management of refractory hepatic encephalopathy after insertion of TIPS: Long-term results of shunt reduction with hourglass-shaped balloon-expandable stent-graft

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1696-1702

  Fanelli, Fabrizio ^a   Salvatori, Filippo Maria ^a   Rabuffi, Paolo ^a   Boatta, Emanuele ^a   Riggio, Oliviero ^a   Lucatelli, Pierleone ^a   Passariello, Roberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Covered stent; Hepatic encephalopathy; Portal hypertension; TIPS; Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LACTULOSE; POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; STENT; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73449089088     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2968     Document Type: Article

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