The distal splenorenal shunt in alcoholic patients. A training program's experience.
Eighteen alcoholic patients who had bled from esophageal varices underwent elective distal splenorenal shunt. None died in surgery, and morbidity was minimal. Two-year survival for the group was 84 per cent. All five patients who have abstained from alcohol remain alive.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011170:Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical / Q000401:mortality; D013164:Splenorenal Shunt, Surgical / Q000401:mortality