Percutaneous Transsplenic Balloon-Assisted Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement in Patients with Portal Vein Obliteration for Portal Vein Recanalization: Feasibility, Safety and Effectiveness.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess the feasibility, safety and effectiveness of portal vein recanalization (PVR)-transjugular portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement via splenic access using a balloon puncture technique.

Materials and methods

In a single-center retrospective study from March 2017 to February 2021, 14 consecutive patients with portal hypertension, chronic liver disease and portal vein occlusion or near-complete (> 95%) occlusion were referred for PVR-TIPS placement. Feasibility, safety and effectiveness including procedural characteristics such as technical success, complication profile and splenic access time (SAT), balloon positioning time (BPT), conventional portal vein entry time (CPVET), overall procedure time (OPT), fluoroscopy time (FT), dose-area product (DAP) and air ke

SUBMITTER: Meine TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9018628 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature