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Successful use of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent shunt to control severe refractory oesophageal variceal haemorrhage in a poor risk patient.
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  1. I. L. Beales,
  2. J. E. Jackson,
  3. M. Rudolf,
  4. J. Arnold
  1. Department of Medicine, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, UK.

    Abstract

    This report describes a 44 year old man with a severe gastrointestinal haemorrhage from oesophageal varices. Bleeding could not be controlled with conservative therapy and sclerotherapy. He was successfully treated with a radiologically guided transjugular intrahepatic stent shunt at a time when his condition was too poor to attempt an open surgical procedure.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.69.818.945

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