TIPS and RTO Disasters: Lessons Learned and Things I'd Do Differently

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM ET

Location: 715

Coordinator(s)

RG

Ron Gaba, MD, MS

Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Khashayar Farsad, MD, PhD, FSIR (he/him/his)

Josef Rosch Professor and Chair
Dotter Department of Interventional Radiology, Oregon Health & Science University, United States

This interactive case-based session highlights times when things go differently than planned, covering pearls and tricks for changing course and identifying ways things could have been managed differently. This is an advanced course with challenging clinical scenarios designed to offer a significant learning experience for both the novice practitioner and the seasoned interventionist.

Learning Objectives:

Identify various ways complications occur during TIPS cases.
Identify various ways complications occur during transvenous obliteration cases.
Identify various ways complications occur during complex portal vein recanalization.

Presentations:

1:15 PM - 1:25 PM ET

Pediatric Portal Hypertension: Clinical Considerations and a Save/disaster
Speaker: Eric Monroe, MD (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin
1:25 PM - 1:35 PM ET

TIPS Save
Speaker: Donna D'Souza, MD, FSIR – University of Minnesota
1:35 PM - 1:45 PM ET

TIPS Disaster
Speaker: Lisa Rauschert, MD – Rush University Medical Center
1:45 PM - 1:55 PM ET

RTO Disaster
Speaker: Saher Sabri, MD, FSIR – MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
1:55 PM - 2:05 PM ET

Portal Vein Recanalization Save
Speaker: Kei Yamada, MD (he/him/his) – Tufts Medical Center
2:05 PM - 2:15 PM ET

Portal Vein Recanalization Disaster
Speaker: K. Pallav Kolli, MD, FSIR – University of California, San Francisco
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM ET

Q&A