The conventional balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration procedure: Indications, contraindications, and technical applications

Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 101-151

  Saad, Wael E A ^a   Kitanosono, Takashi ^b   Koizumi, Jun ^c   Hirota, Shozo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon occlusion; Gastric varices; Obliteration; Phrenic vein; Sclerosant; Trans TIPS; Transhepatic; Transvenous obliteration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BALLOON OCCLUDED ANTEGRADE TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION; BALLOON OCCLUDED RETROGRADE TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION; BALLOON OCCLUSION; HUMAN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; SPLEEN VEIN THROMBOSIS; STOMACH VARICES; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

BALLOON-OCCLUSION; GASTRIC VARICES; OBLITERATION; PHRENIC VEIN; SCLEROSANT; TRANS-TIPS; TRANSHEPATIC; TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION;

BALLOON OCCLUSION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCLEROTHERAPY; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84880007604     PISSN: 10892516     EISSN: 15579808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.tvir.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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