A large proportion of patients with liver cirrhosis complicated with hypersplenism, shows the sign of splenomegaly, anemia, thrombocytopenia, leucopenia, or pancytopenia.Conventional treatments have some limitations and complication.The authors firstly applied a minimally invasive procedure of radiofrequency ablation for hypersplenism used worldwide.The article reviewed the experimental and clinical experiences in radiofrequency ablation for hypersplenism in terms of principle, access, safety, efficacy, and RFA-based multimodalities strategy during recent 10 years.It may provide reference for others to develop a new technology.
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