These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: US-guided paraumbilical vein puncture: an adjunct to transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement.
    Author: Wenz F, Nemcek AA, Tischler HA, Minor PL, Vogelzang RL.
    Journal: J Vasc Interv Radiol; 1992 Aug; 3(3):549-51. PubMed ID: 1515727.
    Abstract:
    Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent-shunt placement has shown great promise as a means of protal decompression in patients with severe portal hypertension. Passage of a needle from the hepatic venous system into the portal venous system during this procedure may be technically difficult; while it would be advantageous to precisely target the portal vein, most methods of localization are themselves technically difficult, risky, or time-consuming. The authors describe a method of localization of the portal vein that, when feasible, appears to be both safe and technically simple. This method involves percutaneous catheterization of a paraumbilical portosystemic collateral vein under sonographic guidance.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]