These guidelines on transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent-shunt (TIPSS) in the management of portal hypertension have been commissioned by the Clinical Services and Standards Committee (CSSC) ...

Background A pre-emptive transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (pTIPS) reduces mortality in high-risk patients with cirrhosis (Child-Pugh C/B+active bleeding) with acute variceal bleeding (AVB ...

Objectives To determine current epidemiology and clinical characteristics of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt surgery, including revisions. Methods A retrospective, multicentre, registry-based study ...

The case reported below was shown to be caused by congenital intrahepatic portal–systemic shunts. N.F. (C–P.M.C. 151–33–75), a 56-year-old married postal clerk, was entirely well until 2 1 ...

The therapeutic principle of portosystemic shunting ... expanding stent can be placed in the intrahepatic IVC, followed by a surgical infrahepatic shunt. 47 Mesoatrial shunts have been used ...

Introduction: Laparoscopic surgery is used for canine congenital extrahepatic portosystemic shunts (CEHPSS). However, outcomes of laparoscopic surgery involving simultaneous portal vein angiography ...

Gioia and colleagues found that sarcopenia and myosteatosis greatly improved in response to transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement (25). Intriguingly, SATI significantly ...