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Veno-occlusive disease of the liver is a severe complication of allogeneic bone marrow or peripheral stem cell transplantation with a high mortality. In its severe form, the portal vein is used as an outflow tract for the arterial hepatic perfusion. A portosystemic side-to-side shunt, e.g. a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, may facilitate portal outflow thus increasing hepatic (i.e. arterial) perfusion.
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