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Percutaneous transhepatic obliteration of a large portosystemic shunt associated with hepatic encephalopathy using a technique of n-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate injection inside hydrogel-coated coils: A case report

Portosystemic shunts with cirrhosis may lead to hepatic encephalopathy (HE), which is often pharmacotherapy-resistant. We report a case of a 66-year-old female patient diagnosed with alcoholic cirrhosis and uncontrolled HE. She underwent percutaneous transhepatic obliteration (PTO) for treatment of...

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Autores principales: Nozawa, Yosuke, Masuda, Koichi, Katayama, Tadashi, Kobashi, Yuko, Ikeda, Koshi, Suzuki, Taiga, Fukuda, Takeshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9539619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36212760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.09.041