SUCCESSFUL USE OF A TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC STENT-SHUNT TO CONTROL SEVERE REFRACTORY ESOPHAGEAL VARICEAL HEMORRHAGE IN A POOR-RISK PATIENT

This report describes a 44 year old man with a severe gastrointestinal haemorrhage from oesophageal varices. Bleeding could not be controlle d with conservative therapy and sclerotherapy. He was successfully tre ated with a radiologically guided transjugular intrahepatic stent shun t at a time when his condition was too poor to attempt an open surgica l procedure.