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Emergency transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for uncontrolled variceal bleeding
H Abujudeh1, D Parikh, S Baker
1Department of Radiology, C320, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, 150 Bergen Street, Newark, NJ 07103, USA. judehmd@yahoo.com
Abstract:
This study was designed to retrospectively evaluate transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) performed on an emergency basis in patients with hemorrhagic shock from recurrent uncontrolled variceal bleeding. Over a 3.5-year period we reviewed the medical records as well as the imaging studies of 16 patients who had uncontrolled variceal bleeding and presented to our department for an emergent placement of TIPS. In our study the technical success was 88% (14/16 patients), the overall mortality was 36% (5/14 patients), and the shunt immediately reduced the portal venous pressure gradient by a mean of 64%. Given the poor outcome of other alternatives, aggressive treatment and placement of TIPS is justified regardless of the severity of the bleeding episode.
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