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Intracardiac Echocardiography Guidance for Percutaneous Closure of Surgical Portocaval Shunt after Liver Transplant

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  1. Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit St., GRB 290, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    David Leon, Mari Tanaka, Ashraf Thabet, Sanjeeva P. Kalva & Vincent Wu

  2. Transplantation Unit, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Adel Bozorgzadeh

  3. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA, 02114, USA

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DL was involved in manuscript preparation, preparation of images, and literature search. MT, AT, DSP, SPK and AB contributed to manuscript editing. VW contributed to manuscript preparation and editing, preparation of images, and literature search.

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Leon, D., Tanaka, M., Thabet, A. et al. Intracardiac Echocardiography Guidance for Percutaneous Closure of Surgical Portocaval Shunt after Liver Transplant. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 47, 273–276 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-023-03582-z

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