Usefulness of intra-procedural cone-beam computed tomography in modified balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration of gastric varices
Edward Wolfgang Lee, Naomi So, Ryan Chapman, Justin P McWilliams, Christopher T Loh, Ronald W Busuttil, Stephen T Kee
Edward Wolfgang Lee, Naomi So, Ryan Chapman, Justin P McWilliams, Christopher T Loh, Stephen T Kee, Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, UCLA Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-743730, United States
Ronald W Busuttil, Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Pfleger Liver Institute, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-743730, United States
Author contributions: Lee EW and Kee ST designed research; Lee EW, So N, Chapman R, McWilliams JP and Loh CT performed research; Lee EW, So N, McWilliams JP and Loh CT analyzed data; Lee EW, So N, Chapman R, McWilliams JP, Loh CT, Busuttil RW and Kee ST wrote the paper, contributed with critical revision and editing and final approval of the final version.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the UCLA Institutional Review Board (IRB#15-000608).
Informed consent statement: The UCLA IRB waived the requirement for informed consent under 45 CFR 46.116(d) for the entire study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No financial conflict-of-interest to disclose.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
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Correspondence to: Edward Wolfgang Lee, MD, PhD, Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, UCLA Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 757 Westwood Plaza, Suite 2125, Los Angeles, CA 90095-743730, United States.
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Received: November 26, 2015
Peer-review started: November 26, 2015
First decision: January 6, 2016
Revised: January 22, 2016
Accepted: February 16, 2016
Article in press: February 17, 2016
Published online: April 28, 2016
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