Contraindications to performing the TIPS procedure?
- Elevated right or left heart pressures
- Heart failure or cardiac valvular insufficiency
- Marked pulmonary hypertension
- Rapidly progressing liver failure
- Clinically significant hepatic encephalopathy
- Uncontrolled sepsis or systemic infection
- Unrelieved biliary obstruction
- Severe, uncorrectable coagulopathy
- Extensive hepatic malignancy (primary or secondary)
