With the recent development of venous-shunt surgery for the relief of portal hypertension a relatively large group of such patients have become available for study. This report represents ten ...

A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS for short ... like bleeding in the veins. It relieves portal hypertension in 80% to 90% of cases. For ascites, it is between 60% and 80% ...

A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) is a minimally invasive procedure for treating portal vein hypertension and other complications of liver disease. A surgeon inserts a stent ...

A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure is a treatment method used to lower portal hypertension, or excessive pressure in your portal vein. This vein is responsible for ...

In the 1990s radiologists added to the useful treatment options for bleeding from portal hypertension, with the development of the nonsurgical transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS).

NVEPS are de novo aberrant vascular connections formed via neoangiogenesis due to sustained portal hypertension. These shunts, which include splenorenal, gastrorenal, mesocaval, and portocaval ...

The postoperative course of 2 groups of 40 patients subjected to either type of shunt between 1959 and ... who were undergoing surgery for portal hypertension. All patients having elective ...

Portal hypertension can be quite serious ... therapy is called nonsurgical transjugular intrahepatic portal-systemic shunt (TIPSS). This therapy helps control acute bleeding.

Cirrhotic ascites results from sinusoidal hypertension and sodium retention ... The end-to-side shunt decompresses the portal system and decreases flow into the hepatic sinusoids, but it does ...

In portal hypertension, the excessive portal flow bypasses the liver and enters the systemic circulation via shunts between the portal and systemic venous systems. These neurotoxins then ...

Portal Hypertension Symptoms and Their ComplicationsPortal hypertension is a condition in which increased pressure within the portal vein—an important vessel that carries blood from the stomach ...