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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-4-21
pubmed:abstractText
Minimally invasive percutaneous procedures has an important place in internal medicine. In this concept is included a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS). In this pilot study we describe the indication of this therapeutic modality in three cirrhotic patients with hemorrhagic congestive gastropathy unresponsive to infusion of drugs that reduce the portal pressure. All of them were treated by TIPS and control of gastric bleeding occurred in all. One of these showed partial stenosis of the wallstent, treated by prosthesis dilatation. Another developed portosystemic encephalopathy controlled by usual therapeutic measures in the other we implanted two TIPS to obtain a low pressure level of the hepatic-portal gradient. They had no further necessity of blood transfusion, with better hemodynamic conditions and biochemical tests with reduction of the values of the GHP. We conclude that TIPS may be useful to treat hemorrhagic congestive gastropathy acting like a bridge for subsequent elective liver transplantation under good clinical and hemodynamic conditions.
pubmed:language
por
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0004-2803
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
34
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
78-84
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
[Treatment of hemorrhagic congestive gastropathy with TIPS implantation. Pilot study].
pubmed:affiliation
Centro Terapêutico Especializado em Fígado (CETEFI), do Hospital São Joaquim da Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, English Abstract