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Balloon‐occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration as a procedure to improve liver function in patients with decompensated cirrhosis

AIM: Portosystemic shunts aggravate liver function by decreasing portal blood flow. The usefulness of balloon‐occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (B‐RTO), a standardized therapeutic procedure for gastric fundal varices (GFV), for the improvement of liver function was evaluated in cirrhotic...

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Autores principales: Nakazawa, Manabu, Imai, Yukinori, Uchiya, Hiroshi, Ando, Satsuki, Sugawara, Kayoko, Nakayama, Nobuaki, Tomiya, Tomoaki, Mochida, Satoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6207025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30483549
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgh3.12020