A Seven-Year Experience with Side-to-Side Portacaval Shunt for Cirrhotic Ascites

Intractable Ascites Management: The Role of Side-to-Side Portacaval Shunt

(1997) Experimental, clinical and metabolic results of side-to-side portacaval shunt for intractable cirrhotic ascites.

Assessment of Portal and Hepatic Hemodynamics after Side-to-side Portacaval Shunt in Patients with Cirrhosis.

Improved quality of life after distal splenorenal shunt. A prospective comparison with side-to-side portacaval shunt.

The distal splenorenal shunt (DSRS) was compared with the side-to-side portacaval shunt (PCS) in 93 prospectively matched patients with portal hypertension. After 38 months mean follow-up the two shunts had a different incidence of acute encephalopathy (22% in PCS group and 33% in DSRS group) and chronic encephalopathy (35% in PCS group and 17% in DSRS group), but the difference was not statist...

Decreased reticuloendothelial phagocytic capacity in cirrhotic and portacaval shunt rats.

In cirrhosis, the phagocytic function of the reticuloendothelial system (RES) is decreased. In order to investigate the mechanisms of the hepatic reduced phagocytic activity present in cirrhosis, the hepatic and splenic uptake of 51Cr sheep red blood cells (SRBC) and of colloidal carbon was measured in three groups of Sprague-Dawley rats. Group 1 consisted of 42 control rats, group 2 of 36 rats...

A modified microsurgical model for end-to-side selective portacaval shunt in the rat. Intraoperative microcirculatory investigations.

PURPOSE To investigate the intraoperative microcirculatory changes of the affected organs (small bowel, liver and kidney) during the making of a modified selective portacaval (PC) shunt. METHODS On ten anaesthetized Sprague-Dawley rats the selective end-to-side mesocaval anastomosis was performed, where only the rostral mesenteric vein is utilized and the portal vein with the splenic vein are...