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Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for the treatment of intractable ascites in a patient with polycystic liver disease

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Though polycystic liver disease (PCLD) has historically been considered a contraindication to TIPS, we present a case where technically successful shunt creation was achieved without the need for modification of the standard TIPS procedure, as was required in a previous report.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, University Hospital, 150 Bergen Street, UH C-320, 07103, Newark, NJ, USA

    Phillip F. Bahramipour, Steven Festa, Rajiv Biswal & Ronald H. Wachsberg

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Bahramipour, P.F., Festa, S., Biswal, R. et al. Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for the treatment of intractable ascites in a patient with polycystic liver disease. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 23, 232–234 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002700010051

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