title: Liver transplantation and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Describe the results of liver transplantation after installing Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) and compare them with those of a control group in a comparative, longitudinal, retrospective study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Between April 1986 and October 2002, we performed 875 liver transplantations. Between January 1996 and October 2002, 26 transplantations were performed on TIPS carriers. This group was compared with a control cohort of 50 randomly selected patients who underwent transplantation in this period (non-TIPS carriers). Both groups were homogeneous with no significant differences between age, sex United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) score, Child stage, or etiology.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Actuarial survival rates at 1 and 3 years: TIPS group 96.15% and 89.29% versus control cohort 87.8% and 81%, respectively. In 73.9%, the TIPS was clearly effective; in 88.9%, a postoperative Doppler revealed normal flow. There were no statistically significant differences compared with time on the waiting list for transplant, duration of the operation, ischemia times, intraoperative consumption of hemoderivates, vascular or nonvascular postoperative complications, duration of stay in the intensive care unit, hospital stay, or retransplantation rate.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In our experience, TIPS insertion does not affect either the intraoperative or postoperative evolution and is not associated with an increased time on the liver transplant waiting list.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Cirugía General, Aparato Digestivo y Trasplante de Organos Abdominales, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Meneu
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fraile
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: García
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Loinaz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abradelo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jiménez
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gomez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Sesma
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Manrique
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gimeno
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D000328:Adult; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000628:therapy; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000401:mortality / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019168:Portasystemic Shunt, Transjugular Intrahepatic / Q000401:mortality; D012086:Reoperation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016019:Survival Analysis; D013997:Time Factors