Friend or Foe? Spontaneous Portosystemic Shunts in Cirrhosis—Current Understanding and Future Prospects

<div>Axial CECT images depicting a large and tortuous splenorenal shunt (SRS; arrowheads) with thrombosed TIPS stent (arrow in (a)). In addition, the image shows recurrence of ascites and hydrothorax (asterisk) for which TIPS was done. The patient underwent occlusion of the SRS and revision of TIPS stent. The postprocedure image shows patent TIPS stent (arrow in (b)) with nonvisualization of SRS and the absence of ascites.</div>

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Figure 12: Friend or Foe? Spontaneous Portosystemic Shunts in Cirrhosis—Current Understanding and Future Prospects 