Colectomy for porto-systemic encephalopathy: is it still topical?
Clinics and Practice, 2013 Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a common long term complication of porto-systemic shunt. We report herein the case of a 59-year-old man with Child-Pugh A cirrhosis treated successfully 9 years earlier with distal splenorenal shunt for uncontrolled ...
Rym Ennaifer +5 more
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Beyond transplant: Roles of atrial septostomy and Potts shunt in pediatric pulmonary hypertension
Pediatric Pulmonology, 2020 Despite significant successes in treating children with pulmonary hypertension, many still die from their disease. Death most often results from right ventricular failure.
R. M. Grady
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Prospective review of 30-day morbidity and mortality in a paediatric neurosurgical unit [PDF]
, 2017 Purpose: The purpose of this study is to record the 30-day and inpatient morbidity and mortality in paediatric patients in a tertiary neuroscience centre over a 2-year period.
Beez, Thomas +2 more
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SILICONE TUBE SHUNT IN SUPRACHOROIDAL SPACE IN RECALCITRANC GLAUCOMAS
Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2003 Silicone tube shunt operations to drain the aqueous from the anterior chamber to the suprachoroidal space were performed in 12 different types of refractory glaucomas in which the intraocular pressure ranged from 25 mmHg to 80 mmHg (mean 45.75 mmHg) even
K JD Karki, A Momose
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Shunt quantification in congenital heart disease based on two-dimensional speckle tracking [PDF]
, 2012 In this work we investigated how high frame rate speckle tracking based on plane wave imaging could be used to improve the quantification of peak velocities in shunt flows due to septal defects.
Fadnes, Solveig +4 more
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Cryptococcal infection of the ventriculoperitoneal shunt in an immunocompetent patient [PDF]
, 2016 Patient: Male, 52 Final Diagnosis: Cryptococcal ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection Symptoms: Confusion • fever • Lethargy Medication: Amphotericin B • Flucytosine Clinical Procedure: Ventriculoperitoneal shunt removal Specialty: Infectious disease ...
Foong, Kap Sum +2 more
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Comparison of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt with covered stent and balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration in managing isolated gastric varices [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVE: Although a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) is commonly placed to manage isolated gastric varices, balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) has also been used. We compare the long-term outcomes from these
Kim, Seung Kwon +3 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 Decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism, collectively known as decompression illness (DCI), are serious medical conditions that can result from compressed gas diving. DCI can present with a wide range of physiologic and neurologic symptoms.
F. Hartig +7 more
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Interatrial shunt devices for heart failure with normal ejection fraction: a technology update [PDF]
, 2017 Heart failure with normal ejection fraction (HeFNEF) accounts for ~50% of heart failure admissions. Its pathophysiology and diagnostic criteria are yet to be defined clearly which may hinder the search for effective treatments.
Clark, Andrew L. +2 more
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Abernethy malformation: A comprehensive review
Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, 2022 Abernethy malformation is a rare condition in which portomesenteric blood bypasses the liver and drains into the systemic vein through a partial or complete shunt. It is categorised into two types on the basis of the shunt pattern between the portal vein
Parveen Kumar +4 more
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