Unsolved Questions in Salvage TIPSS: Practical Modalities for Placement, Alternative Therapeutics, and Long-Term Outcomes

Salvage transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPSS) has proven its efficacy to treat refractory variceal bleeding for patients with cirrhosis. However, this procedure is associated with very poor outcomes. As it is used as a last resort to treat a severe complication of cirrhosis, it seems...

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Main Authors: Charlotte Bouzbib, Philippe Sultanik, Dominique Thabut, Marika Rudler
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-01-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7956717
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description Salvage transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPSS) has proven its efficacy to treat refractory variceal bleeding for patients with cirrhosis. However, this procedure is associated with very poor outcomes. As it is used as a last resort to treat a severe complication of cirrhosis, it seems essential to improve our practice, with the aim of optimizing management of those patients. Somehow, many questions are still unsolved: which stents should be used? Should a concomitant embolization be systematically considered? Is there any alternative therapeutic in case of recurrent bleeding despite TIPSS? What are the long-term outcomes on survival, liver transplantation, and hepatic encephalopathy after salvage TIPSS? Is this procedure futile in some patients? Is prognosis with salvage TIPSS nowadays as bad as earlier, despite the improvement of prophylaxis for variceal bleeding? The aim of this review is to summarize those data and to identify the lacking ones to guide further research on salvage TIPSS.
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spelling doaj-art-872f5e5357cc430e8fb9100bacbeff132025-08-20T02:08:32ZengWileyCanadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology2291-27892291-27972019-01-01201910.1155/2019/79567177956717Unsolved Questions in Salvage TIPSS: Practical Modalities for Placement, Alternative Therapeutics, and Long-Term OutcomesCharlotte Bouzbib0Philippe Sultanik1Dominique Thabut2Marika Rudler3Intensive Care Unit, Hepatology Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, FranceIntensive Care Unit, Hepatology Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, FranceIntensive Care Unit, Hepatology Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, FranceIntensive Care Unit, Hepatology Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, FranceSalvage transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPSS) has proven its efficacy to treat refractory variceal bleeding for patients with cirrhosis. However, this procedure is associated with very poor outcomes. As it is used as a last resort to treat a severe complication of cirrhosis, it seems essential to improve our practice, with the aim of optimizing management of those patients. Somehow, many questions are still unsolved: which stents should be used? Should a concomitant embolization be systematically considered? Is there any alternative therapeutic in case of recurrent bleeding despite TIPSS? What are the long-term outcomes on survival, liver transplantation, and hepatic encephalopathy after salvage TIPSS? Is this procedure futile in some patients? Is prognosis with salvage TIPSS nowadays as bad as earlier, despite the improvement of prophylaxis for variceal bleeding? The aim of this review is to summarize those data and to identify the lacking ones to guide further research on salvage TIPSS.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7956717
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