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PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL

Specialty Definition: PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL

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Surgical venous shunt between the portal and systemic circulation to effect decompression of the portal circulation. It is performed primarily in the treatment of bleeding esophageal varices resulting from portal hypertension. Types of shunt include portacaval, splenorenal, mesocaval, splenocaval, left gastric-caval (coronary-caval), portarenal, umbilicorenal, and umbilicocaval. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 4F 52 54 41 53 59 53 54 45 4D 49 43      53 48 55 4E 54 2C      53 55 52 47 49 43 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001111 01010010 01010100 01000001 01010011 01011001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01001101 01001001 01000011 00100000 01010011 01001000 01010101 01001110 01010100 00101100 00100000 01010011 01010101 01010010 01000111 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0052 0054 0041 0053 0059 0053 0054 0045 004D 0049 0043      0053 0048 0055 004E 0054 002C      0053 0055 0052 0047 0049 0043 0041 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50495254355359535439474337253425548541425355524143373546

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