Percutaneous intervention averted the need for liver transplantation

Abstract A patient with Budd–Chiari Syndrome who had Trans-jugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Stent Shunt (TIPSS) performed with no improvement and was consequently put on the liver transplant list. A non-obstructed channel up to the right atrium was created by opening the misplaced TIPSS stent and dilating supra-hepatic inferior vena cava stenosis. Marked clinical improvement occurred with the patient losing ten kilograms of weight and both his lower limb edema and ascites disappeared 6 weeks after the procedure. In this case percutaneous intervention averted the need for liver transplantation.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  The Egyptian Heart Journal

• Publication date

  2012-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.EHJ.2012.05.004
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