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MTRH celebrates medical history with first ever TIPS procedure in Kenya

Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital has successfully performed Kenya’s first liver treatment procedure known medically as Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) procedure.The complex ...
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Increase of radiologically determined muscle area in patients with liver cirrhosis after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Regardless of the etiology, liver cirrhosis is the common end stage of chronic liver diseases 1, including alcoholic liver disease (ALD), non-alcoholic liver disease (NAFLD), chronic hepatitis B and C ...
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Alterations of the peptidomic composition of peripheral plasma after portal hypertension correction by transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Portal hypertension develops in patients with advanced chronic liver diseases (CLD), especially cirrhosis and is associated with complications, such as gastrointestinal bleeding and ascites resulting ...
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Effects of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt on renal and pulmonary function in hepatic decompensation with and without hepatorenal and hepatopulmonary syndromes

The progressive worsening of liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension (HTN) decreases intra-hepatic nitric oxide (NO), which is counterbalanced by increased NO secretion from adjacent endothelial cells ...
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MTRH makes medical history with first-ever TIPS procedure in Kenya

Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) has successfully performed Kenya’s first Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) procedure. The hospital says the development marks a major step ...