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Transjugular, intrahepatic, portosystemic shunt
S): A shunt (tube) placed between the portal vein which carries blood from the intestines to the liver and the hepatic vein which carries blood from the liver back to the heart. It is used primarily (but not exclusively) in patients with…
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- Factor VIII Factor eight, a key factor in the process of blood coagulation (clotting). Lack of normal factor VIII causes…
- Varco, Richard L. Innovative American surgeon (1912-2004) who helped perform the first successful open heart operation. On…
- Syndrome, Wolf-Hirschhorn See: Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
- Syndrome, Werner A premature aging disease that begins in adolescence or early in adulthood and results in apparent old age by…
- Dominant >Achondroplasia (a common form of dwarfism with short arms and legs), >Familial hypercholesterolemia (high…
- Insufficiency, pancreatic See: Pancreatic insufficiency
- Muscular dystrophy, tibial A specific form of muscular dystrophy in which weakness is usually confined to the anterior compartment (the…
- Centimeter (cm) A unit of measure in the metric system which is 1/100'th of a meter. There are 2.54 centimeters (cms) in one…
- Aphasia, nominal See Anomia
- Infection, primary HIV The first few months after infection with HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus). During primary HIV…
- Venous aneurysm A local widening and bulging (an aneurysm) of a vein. As opposed to an arterial aneurysm or a cardiac…