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@athenalee Thank you for sharing this information. We understand it will not cure his liver cirrhosis but as wih your varices we are hoping it will help with his ascites so he doesn;t have so much abdominal fluid building up and have to go into hospital every month for paracentesis. It's good to hear that TIPs stoped the varices. So you did not experiene any HE after the procedure?
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No, I had no issues following the procedure. As I was in stage 3 when I had the procedure, I did go into end stage about 7 months later. But, it was definitely a blessing for me to have the procedure so that I didn’t have anymore issues with varices. And, I didn’t start developing ascites for about 6 months after the procedure. My liver cirrhosis was caused by an autoimmune disease that had been misdiagnosed and well advanced by the time it had caused stage 3 liver cirrhosis, along with damage to my bile ducts, spleen, and gallbladder.