Uncovering the truth about covered stents: Is there a difference between covered versus uncovered stents with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 202, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 561-564

  Clark, Whalen ^a   Golkar, Farhaad ^a   Luberice, Kenneth ^a   Toomey, Paul ^a   Paul, Harold ^a   Marcadis, Andrea ^a   Okpaleke, Chinyere ^a   Vice, Michelle ^a   Hernandez, Jonathan ^a   Alsina, Angel ^a   Rosemurgy, Alexander S ^a  

^a TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Covered transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt; Portal hypertension; Surgical shunting; Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt; Variceal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVERED STENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCLUSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNT DYSFUNCTION; STENT; STENT OCCLUSION; STENT THROMBOSIS; SURVIVAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNCOVERED STENT; VASCULAR PATENCY;

COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 80055020544     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2011.06.021     Document Type: Article

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