Does the Warren Shunt Correct Hypersplenism?

It has been suggested that patients with bleeding varices and hypersplenism will show significant improvements in leucocyte and platelet counts following distal splenorenal (Warren) shunt surgery. Whilst this may be true in the short term, this report shows that in the long term hypersplenism is not...

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Autores principales: Lodge, J. Peter A., Mavor, Andrew I. D., Giles, Geoffrey R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1990
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2282329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1990/30752
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description It has been suggested that patients with bleeding varices and hypersplenism will show significant improvements in leucocyte and platelet counts following distal splenorenal (Warren) shunt surgery. Whilst this may be true in the short term, this report shows that in the long term hypersplenism is not relieved, whereas the lienorenal shunt is associated with a return of normal haematological values.
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spelling pubmed-24235612008-07-08 Does the Warren Shunt Correct Hypersplenism? Lodge, J. Peter A. Mavor, Andrew I. D. Giles, Geoffrey R. HPB Surg Research Article It has been suggested that patients with bleeding varices and hypersplenism will show significant improvements in leucocyte and platelet counts following distal splenorenal (Warren) shunt surgery. Whilst this may be true in the short term, this report shows that in the long term hypersplenism is not relieved, whereas the lienorenal shunt is associated with a return of normal haematological values. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1990 /pmc/articles/PMC2423561/ /pubmed/2282329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1990/30752 Text en Copyright © 1990 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Does the Warren Shunt Correct Hypersplenism?
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title_full_unstemmed Does the Warren Shunt Correct Hypersplenism?
title_short Does the Warren Shunt Correct Hypersplenism?
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