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Partial Splenic Embolization for Hypersplenism Before and After Liver Transplantation by Christopher S Sockrider; Kevin N Boykin; John Green; Andrew Marsala; Mary Mladenka; Robert McMillan; Gazi B Zibari is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Partial Splenic Embolization for Hypersplenism Before and After Liver Transplantation about?
**Abstract:** Partial splenic embolization (PSE) has been demonstrated to be an effective alternative to splenectomy for patients with hypersplenism. Splenectomy in these patients can be associated with an increased risk of perioperative complications, overwhelming post‐splenectomy sepsis (OPSS) and mortality. Partial splenic embolization has the advantages of non‐ operative intervention and resolution of the complications of hypersplenism. We report the use of this technique in patients with portal hypertension and hypersplenism awaiting liver transplant and patients that have undergone othotopic liver transplantation (OLTx) with persistent hypersplenism post‐transplant. Six patients − three awaiting liver transplantation and three patients with persistent hypersplenism status post‐OLTx − were treated during the period of 1993–99 at the LSUHSC/Willis Knighton Regional Transplant Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. Three patients were male and three female. All six patients had concomitant thrombocytopenia and neutropenia with platelet counts below 50 000. Patients underwent selective arterial catheterization and embolization via a percutaneous approach with Cook microcoils or PVA par
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- Author
- Christopher S Sockrider; Kevin N Boykin; John Green; Andrew Marsala; Mary Mladenka; Robert McMillan; Gazi B Zibari
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0902-0063)
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)