Open AccessStent-grafts for the treatment of TIPS dysfunction: Fluency stentvsWallgraft stent
Author(s) -
Xuefeng Luo
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v19.i30.5000
Subject(s) - stent , medicine , surgery , radiology , fluency , retrospective cohort study , linguistics , philosophy
To evaluate the clinical efficacy of an expanded polytetrafluoro-ethylene-covered Fluency stent compared with that of a polyethylene terephthalate-covered Wallgraft stent for the management of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) dysfunction.