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Development of chronic hepatocerebral degeneration eight years after a distal splenorenal (Warren) shunt.

It is well known that chronic encephalopathy may be a major complication after the establishment of a surgical portal caval shunt for an episode of variceal haemorrhage. In an effort to minimise this problem Warren and colleagues developed the distal splenorenal shunt where the portal and mesenteric...

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Main Authors: Bleasel, A F, Waugh, R C, McCaughan, G W
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1989
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1434387/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2583570
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