Treatment of portosystemic shunt-borne hepatic encephalopathy in a 97-year-old woman using balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration: A case report

BACKGROUND: Hyperammonemia and hepatic encephalopathy are common in patients with portosystemic shunts. Surgical shunt occlusion has been standard treatment, although recently the less invasive balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (B-RTO) has gained increasing attention. Thus far, th...

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Autores principales: Nishi, Akihiro, Kenzaka, Tsuneaki, Sogi, Misa, Nakaminato, Shuichiro, Suzuki, Takahiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9928706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36818635
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v11.i4.945

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9928706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36818635
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v11.i4.945

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