At Jared's last clinic appointment the doctor mentioned a procedure that may be in Jared's future. He continues to have fluid accumulate in his abdomen and they have to keep draining it off. There are always risks to having the fluid drained, which he experienced last October. Since the diuretics are not keeping the fluid off enough they may consider doing a TIPS. It is where they go in and place a stent to create new connections between two blood vessels in the liver. There are always risks with any procedure. The worst risk with this one is; because he already has a bad liver it could cause him to go into complete liver failure. We don't necessarily want that because there is always the possibility they wouldn't be able to find him a new liver in time. I don't know what the doctors will decide at this point. It all depends on the acities that continues to build up.
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