In the 1990s radiologists added to the useful treatment options for bleeding from portal hypertension, with the development of the nonsurgical transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS).

Although much research on the mechanisms of portal hypertension has focused on liver fibrosis, less attention has been given to the role of intrahepatic ... leading to increased portal vein pressure.

The therapeutic principle of portosystemic shunting is to convert the portal vein into an ... can be placed in the intrahepatic IVC, followed by a surgical infrahepatic shunt.

Hepatic vein thrombosis is caused by one ... Percutaneous angioplasty, followed by portosystemic shunt (including a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent shunt) and eventually liver ...