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Management of hepatic hydrothorax with a peritoneovenous (Denver) shunt
E Ghandour1, J Carter, M Feola
1Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock 79430.
Southern Medical Journal
|June 1, 1990
Abstract:
One patient with alcoholic cirrhosis and a massive hydrothorax resistant to medical management and thoracocentesis was treated with a Denver peritoneovenous shunt. This patient's progress has been followed for 14 months and the pleural effusion has not recurred.