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Surgeons have played a role in the management of portal hypertension since Eck performed the first end-to-side portacaval shunt (the Eck fistula) in dogs at the end of the 19th century (1). Several surgeons in the early 1900s attempted to manage variceal bleeding with various procedures, but it was in the 1940s that there was the first systematic use of surgical shunts to control variceal bleeding by the Columbia Presbyterian Group in New York.
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Henderson, J.M. (2005). Surgical Therapies for Management. In: Sanyal, A.J., Shah, V.H. (eds) Portal Hypertension. Clinical Gastroenterology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-885-4_16
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