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  • Title: [Complications of transcutaneous transhepatic endovascular interventions in patients with portal hypertension].
    Author: Karimov ShI, Akhtaev AR, Kim VF, Borovskiĭ SP.
    Journal: Khirurgiia (Mosk); 1996; (6):82-6. PubMed ID: 9173161.
    Abstract:
    Results of endovasal treatment of 196 patients with portal hypertension and its complications are analysed. The total rate of complications is 23.4%, the most serious of them were intraabdominal bleeding (2.5%), portal vein thrombosis (2.1%). The rate of mortality, related to the complications of transhepatic procedures, was 2.5%. The majority of the complications were specific to the character of the disease: liver cirrhosis, ascites, high portal pressure, coagulating system disorders.
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