Abstract

AbstractPercutaneous management of complications of portal hypertension entails reducing portal pressures, controlling varices, and redirecting collateral flow using embolization, obliterative, restorative, recanalization, and shunt creation techniques. Management is based on the clinical status and symptoms and the physiologic and anatomic abnormalities causing portal hypertension. This article briefly describes percutaneous management strategies, their results, and related iatrogenic and physiologic complications.

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