Year 2017 / Volume 109 / Number 6
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Recurrent hyperammonemic encephalopathy. Embolization of the portosystemic shunt

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Goizalde Solano Iturri, Alfonso Gutiérrez Macías, Borja Peña Baranda, Miguel González de Garay Sanzo,

Abstract
We present the case of a recurrent hyperammonaemic encephalopathy due to a portosystemic shunt that was successfully treated by embolization.
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1. Ramírez-Polo A, Márquez-Guillén E, González-Aguirre AJ et al. Persistent hepatic encephalopathy secondary to portosystemic shunt occluded with Amplatzer device. Annals of Hepatology. 2014; Vol. 13 No. 4: 456-460.
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Solano Iturri G, Gutiérrez Macías A, Peña Baranda B, González de Garay Sanzo M. Recurrent hyperammonemic encephalopathy. Embolization of the portosystemic shunt. 4868/2017


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Received: 26/01/2017

Accepted: 13/02/2017

Published: 01/06/2017

Article revision time: 8 days

Article editing time: 126 days


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