title: Peritoneovenous shunt - modification with the use of long saphenous vein.
abstract: The authors describe their own initial experience with saphenoperitoneal modification of the peritoneovenous shunt in intractable ascites solution. Their findings with this easy type of permanent ascites drainage using the "patient's own resources" are puzzling.
authors.affiliation: 2nd Clinic of Surgery, Teaching Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic. petr.utikal@fnol.cz
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Utíkal
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Drác
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bachleda
authors.forename: Jirí
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: Vladimír
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Král
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hrabalová
mesh_terms: D001201:Ascites / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications; D010536:Peritoneovenous Shunt / Q000379:methods*; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation*