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ArticleCureus2021

Unique Method of Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Reduction for Refractory Hepatic Encephalopathy.

Ayub Khan, Christopher W Bailey

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Article in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 45% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. TIPS Reduction by Parallel Placement of Amplatzer Vascular Plug and Stent.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2023
    Article
  2. Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Reductions.Seminars in interventional radiology · 2023
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ayub KhanMedicine, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Lewisburg, USA.
Christopher W BaileyInterventional Radiology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, USA.
Virginia Commonwealth University · USWest Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the case of a 27-year-old female patient with a history of cryptogenic cirrhosis who was admitted to the hospital due to multiple episodes of hematemesis secondary to bleeding esophageal varices. The varices were persistent and refractory to endoscopic intervention, so an emergent transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) was performed by interventional radiology (IR). Months later, the patient returned to the hospital unresponsive with acute intermittent hepatic encephalopathy which required a TIPS reduction by IR. Once the TIPS reduction was performed, the patient's hepatic encephalopathy declined, and her symptoms improved. Here, we present a unique method of TIPS reduction utilizing a single Viabahn VBX balloon-expandable stent (W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc; Flagstaff, AZ) to constrain the existing TIPS stent.

Indexed as

decompensated cirrhosisesophageal varicesgastric variceal bleedinghepatic encephalopathyportal hypertensionrefractory gastrointestinal bleedshunt reductiontipstips reductiontransjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Identifiers

PMID34804693
PMCPMC8592787
OpenAlexW3207928327

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Registered trials

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