{"title":"Thoracic duct decompression: An idea whose time has come - again.","authors":"M. Witte","doi":"10.2458/lymph.4654","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"[Editorial] Thoracic duct decompression (TDD) is an idea first proposed and applied as a novel therapeutic strategy by lymphologists in the 1960's. TDD is recently being reexamined and, in selected patients with portal hypertension from hepatic cirrhosis or with central venous hypertension from isolated right-sided heart failure, undertaken using advanced surgical and image-guided interventional radiologic approaches.","PeriodicalId":51122,"journal":{"name":"Lymphology","volume":"53 2 1","pages":"51-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Lymphology","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2458/lymph.4654","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"IMMUNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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[Editorial] Thoracic duct decompression (TDD) is an idea first proposed and applied as a novel therapeutic strategy by lymphologists in the 1960's. TDD is recently being reexamined and, in selected patients with portal hypertension from hepatic cirrhosis or with central venous hypertension from isolated right-sided heart failure, undertaken using advanced surgical and image-guided interventional radiologic approaches.
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The Journal contains original articles, special features (see below), and information regarding the International Society of Lymphology. It seeks original papers dealing with clinical and basic studies of the lymphatic system and its disorders including related fields. Articles are accepted for external review and publication on the condition that they are contributed to Lymphology only and that no substantial part has been or will be published elsewhere.
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