The authors correctly caution that their prognostic score must be externally validated before use in a clinical setting. Hopefully, with further studies and validation, a recommendation can be made on which patients with BCS should proceed beyond TIPS in a timely manner to liver transplantation.
Liver transplantation with caval thrombectomy and cavoatrial shunt in acute Budd-Chiari syndrome
β Scribed by Olga Tucker; Narendra Battula; Pauline Kane; John Karani; Nigel Heaton; Paolo Muiesan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-6465
- DOI
- 10.1002/lt.21057
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