title: [Present position of non-shunt surgery for bleeding oesophageal varices (author's transl)].
abstract: This is a critical retrospective study of a homogeneous group of 24 patients with hepatic cirrhosis and portal hypertension who underwent emergency surgery for bleeding oesophageal varices. The adopted procedure was the porta-azygos disconnection, according to Torres-Degni, with or without splenectomy. The criterion derived from the need to stop bleeding, from contraindications to a portal-systemic shunt, or from other situations which are illustrated. The difficulty of selecting in these cases the appropriate surgery and the high operative death rate (46%) is commented. In survivors, the long-term outcome depends on the progress of the underlying liver disease.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004630:Emergencies; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000150:complications; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Posizione attuale della chirurgia non derivativa nel trattamento delle emorragie da varici esofagee