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Improved transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt patency with PTFE-covered stent-grafts: experimental results in swine.

DOI

142

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0

References

1995

Year

K Nishimine, Richard R. Saxon, K Kichikawa, J Mendel-Hartvig, Hans A. Timmermans, Hyung Jin Shim, B. Uchida, Robert E. Barton, Frederick S. Keller, Josef Rösch
Radiology

Abstract

PTFE-covered stent-grafts significantly improved TIPS patency in swine (P < .01). However, stenosis in the hepatic vein led to late shunt malfunction in selected cases.