Spontaneous portosystemic shunt diameter predicts liver function after balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration.
Akihisa TatsumiShinya MaekawaLeona OsawaRyo KatohYasuyuki KomiyamaNatsuko NakakukiHitomi TakadaShuya MatsudaMasaru MuraokaYuichiro SuzukiMitsuaki SatoEi TakahashiMika MiuraFumitake AmemiyaShinichi TakanoMitsuharu FukasawaTatsuya YamaguchiYasuhiro NakayamaTaisuke InoueHiroki OkadaTakuji ArakiHiroshi OnishiNobuyuki EnomotoPublished in: JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology (2022)
SPSS diameter was strongly associated with liver function at baseline and after BRTO and also with changes in HVPG, indicating that SPSS diameter is an important predictor of BRTO outcome.
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