Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical
"Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Surgical venous shunt between the portal and systemic circulation to effect decompression of the portal circulation. It is performed primarily in the treatment of bleeding esophageal varices resulting from portal hypertension. Types of shunt include portacaval, splenorenal, mesocaval, splenocaval, left gastric-caval (coronary-caval), portarenal, umbilicorenal, and umbilicocaval.
| Descriptor ID |
D011170
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.035.760 E04.100.814.868.937
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| Concept/Terms |
Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical- Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical
- Shunt, Surgical Portasystemic
- Portasystemic Shunts, Surgical
- Shunts, Surgical Portasystemic
- Surgical Portasystemic Shunts
- Portosystemic Shunt, Surgical
- Portasystemic Shunt
- Portasystemic Shunts
- Shunt, Portasystemic
- Shunts, Portasystemic
- Shunt, Surgical Portosystemic
- Portosystemic Shunts, Surgical
- Shunts, Surgical Portosystemic
- Surgical Portosystemic Shunts
- Surgical Portosystemic Shunt
- Portosystemic Shunt
- Portosystemic Shunts
- Shunt, Portosystemic
- Shunts, Portosystemic
- Surgical Portasystemic Shunt
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