USE OF TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT (TIPS) IN AN 84 YEAR-OLD PATIENT DURING ACUTE VARICEAL BLEEDING

Authors
GRINBERG AR DELASERNA F SILVA M FINKIELMAN JD MAGARINOS E FESTA HM LORENZINO GA CAZENAVE CA
Citation
Ar. Grinberg et al., USE OF TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT (TIPS) IN AN 84 YEAR-OLD PATIENT DURING ACUTE VARICEAL BLEEDING, Medicina, 58(3), 1998, pp. 295-297
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Medicina → ACNP
ISSN journal
00257680
Volume
58
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
295 - 297
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-7680(1998)58:3<295:UOTIPS>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
The transjugular intrahepatic protosystemic shunt (TIPS) is a nonsurgi cal method with low mortality which does not interfere with subsequent live: transplantation. We describe the case of an old male patient wi th chronic hepatopathy who was admitted because of an episode of varic eal bleeding. Due to the failure of the medical treatment and scleroth erapy, coronarian stomachic vein was embolized with a coil and a TIPS was performed during the acute episode of variceal bleeding. He evolve d favorably and after a year of the procedure remains asymptomatic.