Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical
"Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Surgical venous shunt between the portal and systemic circulation to effect decompression of the portal circulation. It is performed primarily in the treatment of bleeding esophageal varices resulting from portal hypertension. Types of shunt include portacaval, splenorenal, mesocaval, splenocaval, left gastric-caval (coronary-caval), portarenal, umbilicorenal, and umbilicocaval.
MeSH Number(s)
E04.035.760
E04.100.814.868.937
Concept/Terms
Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical- Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical
- Shunt, Surgical Portasystemic
- Portasystemic Shunts, Surgical
- Shunts, Surgical Portasystemic
- Surgical Portasystemic Shunts
- Portosystemic Shunt, Surgical
- Portasystemic Shunt
- Portasystemic Shunts
- Shunt, Portasystemic
- Shunts, Portasystemic
- Shunt, Surgical Portosystemic
- Portosystemic Shunts, Surgical
- Shunts, Surgical Portosystemic
- Surgical Portosystemic Shunts
- Surgical Portosystemic Shunt
- Portosystemic Shunt
- Portosystemic Shunts
- Shunt, Portosystemic
- Shunts, Portosystemic
- Surgical Portasystemic Shunt
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1995 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical" by people in Profiles.
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Functional side-to-side splenorenal shunts to treat extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis in children. Am J Surg. 2022 07; 224(1 Pt B):530-534.
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Hepatic Hemodynamics and Portal Flow Modulation: The A2ALL Experience. Transplantation. 2017 10; 101(10):2375-2384.
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EUS-guided intrahepatic portosystemic shunt with direct portal pressure measurements: a novel alternative to transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting. Gastrointest Endosc. 2017 Jan; 85(1):243-247.
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Intrahepatic portosystemic shunt: an endoscopic approach. Gastrointest Endosc. 2016 Nov; 84(5):855-856.
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Treatment of neovaginal variceal bleeding after transgender surgery with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2015 May; 26(5):762-3.
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Assessment of surgical portosystemic shunts and associated complications: The diagnostic and therapeutic role of radiologists. Eur J Radiol. 2015 Aug; 84(8):1525-1539.
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Impact of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt creation on intermediate-term model for end-stage liver disease score progression. Transplant Proc. 2014 Jun; 46(5):1384-8.
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Etiology and long-term outcome of extrahepatic portal vein obstruction in children. World J Gastroenterol. 2010 Oct 21; 16(39):4968-72.
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Higher hospital volume predicts endoscopy but not the in-hospital mortality rate in patients with acute variceal hemorrhage. Gastrointest Endosc. 2009 Feb; 69(2):221-9.
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Mesogonadal shunts for extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis and variceal hemorrhage. Liver Transpl. 2005 Nov; 11(11):1389-94.