Background: Patients with cirrhosis in Child-Pugh class C or those in class B who have persistent bleeding at endoscopy are at high risk for treatment failure and a poor prognosis, even if they have undergone rescue treatment with a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS). This study ev
Portosystemic hepatic encephalopathy after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in patients with cirrhosis: Clinical, laboratory, psychometric, and electroencephalographic investigations
✍ Scribed by Dr. Wilhelm Nolte; Jens Wiltfang; Christian Schindler; Hans Münke; Knut Unterberg; Uta Zumhasch; Hans R. Figulla; Gerald Werner; Heinz Hartmann; Giuliano Ramadori
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 176 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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