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WILLIAM S. DYE, M.D.; RICHARD B. CAPPS, M.D.; LYLE A. BAKER, M.D.; WILLIAM J. GROVE, M.D.; ORMAND C. JULIAN, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1957;74(6):959-963.

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The surgical treatment of portal hypertension has depended primarily on the use of portacaval or splenorenal shunts.^1-13 The shunt procedures are usually performed in patients who have hemorrhaged from esophageal varices, the surgery being done during a quiescent period. The use of balloon tamponade has been the most universal method of controlling the acute bleeding from esophageal varices.¹⁴ Recently, however, portacaval shunts have been recommended as an emergency procedure in acutely bleeding patients.¹⁵ Difficulty in the management of these patients, particularly the cirrhotic patient, has led to the introduction of various other procedures, such as gastroesophageal reaction,^16,17 transection of the upper stomach with resuturing,^18,19 and transesophageal ligation of varices.^20-22 Ligation of arterial supply to the liver and spleen has also been advocated by some.^23-26 Much of the difficulty in comparing mortality of surgically and medically treated patients is the great influence exerted on . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Read at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Western Surgical Association Cincinnati, Dec. 1, 1957.

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