Intractable Hepatic Encephalopathy with a Large Portosystemic Shunt Successfully Treated Using Shunt-preserving Disconnection of the Portal and Systemic Circulation

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a significant symptom of decompensated liver cirrhosis. Occlusion of portosystemic shunts is used to treat refractory HE. Nevertheless, these treatments often cause adverse events, such as ascites and esophageal varices. We treated a 57-year-old man with refractory HE...

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Autores principales: Haraguchi, Masafumi, Hirai, Satoshi, Nakamura, Yutaka, Otsuka, Tetsuhiro, Ishimaru, Hideki, Sasaki, Ryu, Fukushima, Masanori, Miuma, Satoshi, Miyaaki, Hisamitsu, Nakao, Kazuhiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32009096
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.3955-19

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