Ascites control by TIPS is more successful in patients with a lower paracentesis frequency and is associated with improved survival

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Refractory ascites is the main reason for the implantation of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) in liver cirrhosis, but ascites control by TIPS fails in a relevant proportion of cases. Here, we investigated whether routine parameters pre-TIPS can predict p...

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Autores principales: Piecha, Felix, Radunski, Ulf K., Ozga, Ann-Kathrin, Steins, David, Drolz, Andreas, Horvatits, Thomas, Spink, Clemens, Ittrich, Harald, Benten, Daniel, Lohse, Ansgar W., Sinning, Christoph, Kluwe, Johannes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32039356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhepr.2019.04.001

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32039356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhepr.2019.04.001

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