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How much time does one normally live after tips without a liver transplant?
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Many years: The TIPS is a shunt to relieve portal hypertension, performed between jugular and portal system. As stents have improved portal hypertension relieved until effect of usual cirrhotic picture causes further liver failure. Patients go 5+years or longer with TIPS
Answered 6/1/2014
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