Successful use of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent shunt to control severe refractory oesophageal variceal haemorrhage in a poor risk patient.
This report describes a 44 year old man with a severe gastrointestinal haemorrhage from oesophageal varices. Bleeding could not be controlled with conservative therapy and sclerotherapy. He was successfully treated with a radiologically guided transjugular intrahepatic stent shunt at a time when his condition was too poor to attempt an open surgical procedure.
Beales
I L
IL
Department of Medicine, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, UK.
Jackson
J E
JE
Rudolf
M
M
Arnold
J
J
D000328:Adult; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000628:therapy*; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011170:Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical / Q000379:methods*