Anesthetic management of the patient with portacaval shunts
โ Scribed by Maurice Lippmann; Paul H. Lorhan
- Book ID
- 118837840
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1968
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 540 KB
- Volume
- 116
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9610
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Over the past decade, we have developed and refined a method for partial portosystemic shunting for the control of bleeding esophageal varices in alcoholic cirrhotic patients. The narrow-diameter interposition portacaval H-graft using 8 mm polytetrafluoroethylene has been performed in 32 patients at
## Summary This study explores the use of ultrasound in the management of patients with portacaval anastomosis. Ten patients were studied; in 8 of these the status of the anastomosis was well demonstrated. It is suggested that ultrasound should be the initial investigation to determine the patency