| pubmed-article:548917 | pubmed:abstractText | Fourteen cirrhotic patients underwent distal splenorenal shunt to prevent recurrent hemorrhage from oesophageal varices. No post-operative mortality was observed. Transitory chylous ascites occured in 1 patient, portal thrombosis with concomitant early rebleeding in another one. Hypersplenism was improved post-operatively. Porto-caval encephalopathy was not observed. With a follow-up between 3 and 27 months, one single patient died from hepatic failure, variceal bleeding did not reccur in long term survivors. | lld:pubmed |
