Bilhemia: A Rare Complication of Transjugular Intraheptic Portosytemic Shunt

A 56-year-old woman with cirrhosis due to chronic hepatitis C underwent emergent transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) due to a ruptured esophageal varix during esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Following TIPS, the patient experienced a rapid rise in serum bilirubin with no evidence of bili...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Michael, Valentino, Michael A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American College of Gastroenterology 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26504882
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2015.101
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description A 56-year-old woman with cirrhosis due to chronic hepatitis C underwent emergent transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) due to a ruptured esophageal varix during esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Following TIPS, the patient experienced a rapid rise in serum bilirubin with no evidence of biliary obstruction or hepatic injury. She was determined to have bilhemia, a rare but serious complication of TIPS.
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spelling pubmed-46127622015-10-26 Bilhemia: A Rare Complication of Transjugular Intraheptic Portosytemic Shunt Zhang, Michael Valentino, Michael A. ACG Case Rep J Case Report A 56-year-old woman with cirrhosis due to chronic hepatitis C underwent emergent transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) due to a ruptured esophageal varix during esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Following TIPS, the patient experienced a rapid rise in serum bilirubin with no evidence of biliary obstruction or hepatic injury. She was determined to have bilhemia, a rare but serious complication of TIPS. American College of Gastroenterology 2015-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4612762/ /pubmed/26504882 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2015.101 Text en Copyright © Zhang et al. This is an open-access article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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title Bilhemia: A Rare Complication of Transjugular Intraheptic Portosytemic Shunt
title_full Bilhemia: A Rare Complication of Transjugular Intraheptic Portosytemic Shunt
title_fullStr Bilhemia: A Rare Complication of Transjugular Intraheptic Portosytemic Shunt
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title_short Bilhemia: A Rare Complication of Transjugular Intraheptic Portosytemic Shunt
title_sort bilhemia: a rare complication of transjugular intraheptic portosytemic shunt
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612762/
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