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6873567

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1983-9-23
pubmed:abstractText
Forty one patients with chronic liver disease and intractable ascites were treated by a portal-systemic shunt. Operative mortality was 4.8 p. 100. Ascites was definitely cleared in 97 p. 100 of the 39 survivors. Fourteen patients later developed encephalopathy which was severe in 6 (15.3 p. 100). One-year survival rate was 72 p. 100. Late deaths were mainly due to complications of liver disease. These results suggest that portal diversion is an efficient and permanent treatment of intractable ascites in cirrhotic patients. Operative mortality and overall survival rates are similar to those observed after peritoneo-venous shunting. The peritoneo-venous shunt is preferable as the first-choice treatment of intractable ascites in cirrhotics because of the risk of encephalopathy. Portal diversion should be proposed for patients with previous variceal hemorrhage and for those in whom peritoneo-venous shunt has failed.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0399-8320
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
533-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1983
pubmed:articleTitle
[Treatment of intractable ascites in cirrhotic patients by portal shunt].
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract