We will soon begin repaving the main driveway outside the Yawkey, Menino, and Moakley buildings. Weather permitting, driveway closures are scheduled for the following weekends, from Friday at 8 p.m. through Sunday at 8 p.m., on the following dates: Sept. 19-21, Sept. 26-28, Oct. 17-19, and Oct. 24-26. 

Access Changes During Construction:

Pedestrian Access: Patients and visitors will be able to enter Moakley through the entrance on East Concord Street.    

Vehicle Access: Vehicular traffic should use the designated drop-off and pick-up area on East Concord Street or the 710 Albany Street Garage. Signage will indicate where metered parking has been blocked off to create a drop-off/pick-up zone (on E. Concord between Harrison and the Moakley side entrance). 

Learn more about our campus redesign. 

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt is a procedure where a doctor puts a stent in your portal vein to connect it to the hepatic vein in the liver. 

The portal vein carries blood from other organs to your liver. You can have high blood pressure in your portal vein, which increases your risk of internal bleeding and other serious problems. TIPS allows blood to flow from the portal vein to another vein, reducing the pressure in the portal vein.

TIPS is performed by an interventional radiologist, who uses guided imagery to connect the two veins and place a stent to keep the connection open.

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