SURVIVAL AFTER DISTAL SPLENORENAL SHUNT
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 145 (1) , 12-16
Abstract
The distal splenorenal shunt is attended by the highest post-shunt survival as yet reported for patients with nonalcoholic cirrhosis, portal hypertension and bleeding varices; the procedure is safe, and in this series, the mortality was nil for 66 consecutive operations. An analysis of the causes of death suggests that continued alcohol abuse plays an important part in the late mortality among those in the post-shunt alcoholic cirrhosis group.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- A Controlled Study of the Prophylactic Portacaval ShuntAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1969
- Selective Trans-Splenic Decompression Of Gastroesophageal Varices By Distal Splenorenal ShuntAnnals of Surgery, 1967