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July 01, 2024; Volume 91,Issue 7
O'shea, Robert S.
- You have accessDoes my patient with acute variceal hemorrhage need a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt?Mahnur Haider, MD, Indira Bhavsar-Burke, MD, Robert S. O’Shea, MD, MSCE and Christina C. Lindenmeyer, MDCleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2024, 91 (7) 409-413; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.91a.24014
Placement of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt can be used as salvage therapy to control bleeding when endoscopic management fails and as a means of secondary prophylaxis in select patients.