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Combined TIPS with portal-azygous disconnection improved the long term clinical outcome in portal hypertension patients

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Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

Abstract

Objective

The results of TIPS and the combined TIPS and portal-azygous disconnection for portal hypertension and variceal bleeding were evaluated.

Methods

358 patients with portal hypertension were admitted to our clinical ward because of variceal bleeding. 263 patients underwent TIPS and 95 patients with combined TIPS and portal-azygous disconnection. Portal hemodynamics was evaluated by pressure measurements, venography and Doppler ultrasound before and 2 weeks after the procedure. The rates of shunt patency, rebleeding, encephalopathy and survival were observed during the follow-up period from 1 to 10 years.

Results

The portal pressure and HVPG were decreased significantly after TIPS. TIPS procedure was successfully performed in 97.50% patients. During 1 month after treatment, acute shunt occlusion occurred in 3.42% patients with TIPS and there were no occluded shunts in patients with combined TIPS and portal-azygous disconnection. Encephalopathy was observed in 36.50% patients with TIPS and 18.95% with combined TIPS and portal-azygous disconnection. Recurrent variceal bleeding was documented in 6.46% patients with TIPS and none of patients with combined TIPS and azygous portal disconnection. Thirty-three patients with TIPS and two patients with combined TIPS and portal-azygous disconnection died. During follow-up periods, the patency of shunts in patients with TIPS and patients combined TIPS and azygous portal disconnection was 68.47, 43.84 and 87.06, 57.65% in 12 and 24 months after operation, respectively. The rates of rebleeding, and encephalopathy in patients with TIPS and patients with combined TIPS and azygous portal disconnection were 17.95, 31.79 and 7.04, 16.47%, respectively. The survival rate in 1, 5, 10 years in patients with TIPS and patients combined TIPS and azygous portal disconnection was 87.68, 51.23, 39.90 and 94.12, 81.18, 76.47%.

Conclusion

Combined TIPS and portal-azygous disconnection can improve the effect of TIPS for portal hypertension.

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  1. Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, 305 East Zhongshan Road, 210002, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Xingjiang Wu, Jianmin Han, Xuehao Wu, Weisu Li, Jinmei Sun & Jieshou Li

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    Jianmin Cao

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Wu, X., Han, J., Cao, J. et al. Combined TIPS with portal-azygous disconnection improved the long term clinical outcome in portal hypertension patients. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg 16, 858–864 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00534-009-0189-0

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