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Refractory ascites: early experience in treatment with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.

DOI

106

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0

References

1993

Year

Héctor Ferral, Haraldur Bjarnason, Scott A. Wegryn, G J Rengel, Gwen K. Nazarian, Jeffrey M. Rank, S M Tadavarthy, David Hunter, W R Castańeda-Zúńiga
Radiology

Abstract

These results are comparable to those for other forms of treatment of ascites. The authors do not, however, recommend TIPS in patients with a Child-Pugh score greater than 11.