Safety and Feasibility of Gun-Sight Technique for Transjugular Intra-hepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) Creation.

Nathan Elie Frenk Taedo Jake Choi Lauren Sunhye Park Emil Israel Cohen George Emmet LynskeySaher Salim Sabri

Published in: Cardiovascular and interventional radiology (2023)

Gun-sight technique for TIPS creation has a high success rate in this challenging cohort of patients. While complications can occur, most of the adverse events noted were likely associated with TIPS creation itself rather than gun-sight. Early thrombosis only occurred in patients with PVT. Level of Evidence Level 4, Case Series.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
peritoneal dialysis
pulmonary embolism
risk factors
pulmonary artery
pulmonary hypertension
pulmonary arterial hypertension
patient reported