Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for gastric varices: the relationship between the clinical outcome and gastrorenal shunt occlusion

BACKGROUND: The rupture of gastric varices is associated with high mortality rate. Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (B-RTO), a minimally invasive procedure that was introduced in the mid-1990s, has been widely accepted in Japan. Several reports have indicated that B-RTO yields sa...

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Autores principales: Katoh, Kenichi, Sone, Miyuki, Hirose, Atsuo, Inoue, Yoshihiro, Fujino, Yasuhisa, Onodera, Makoto
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20074342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2342-10-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20074342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2342-10-2

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