Technical and clinical outcome of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent shunt: Bare metal stents (BMS) versus viatorr stent-grafts (VSG)
European Journal of Radiology, 08/17/2012
Sommer CM et al. – VSG increased primary shunt patency as well as decreased time to and number of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent–shunt (TIPS) revisions. There was a trend of higher clinical success in VSG without increased hepatic encephalopathy.



