Recognized predisposing factors include cirrhosis and hepatic trauma but these are present in only a minority of patients. In the majority, some shunts appear to be congenital in origin while ...
Proposed in the early 1980s as a solution for managing complications of portal hypertension, the percutaneous creation of ...
The Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) score and Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD ... risk of patients with cirrhosis for portal-systemic shunt surgery. It consists of three laboratory parameters ...