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Functional recovery from refractory hepatic encephalopathy following angiographic obliteration of a large, spontaneous portal-umbilical portosystemic shunt: a case report
BACKGROUND: Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) as a consequence of cirrhosis with portal hypertension has a profound impact on quality of life for both patients and caregivers, has no gold-standard diagnostic test, and is a risk factor for mortality. Spontaneous portosystemic shunts (SPSS) are common in pa...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9402870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36002541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42155-022-00320-3 |