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Embolization of splenorenal shunt associated to portal vein thrombosis and hepatic encephalopathy.
World J Gastroenterol
November 2014
Letícia de Campos Franzoni, Fábio da Silva Yamashiro, Laís Augusti, Lívia Alves Amaral Santos, Mariana de Souza Dorna, Júlio Pinheiro Baima, Talles Bazeia Lima, Carlos Antonio Caramori, Giovanni Faria Silva, Fernando Gomes Romeiro, Internal Medicine Department, Gastroenterology Division, Botucatu Medical School, UNESP, 18 618 970 Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Unlabelled: Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a cognitive disturbance characterized by neuropsychiatric alterations. It occurs in acute and chronic hepatic disease and also in patients with portosystemic shunts. The presence of these portosystemic shunts allows the passage of nitrogenous substances from the intestines through systemic veins without liver depuration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[A case of port-systemic shunt associated with splenic artery aneurysm and pulmonary hypertension].
Nihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi
September 2003
Department of Gastroenterology, Watari Hospital.
[Adult-onset type II citrullinemia in a patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis].
Rinsho Shinkeigaku
September 1998
Department of Second Internal Medicine, Toyama Medical & Pharmaceutical University.
A 57-year-old Japanese man was admitted to Toyama Medical & Pharmaceutical University Hospital with delirium and flapping tremor on April 2, 1997. He had been undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) because of diabetic nephropathy since 1993. Blood chemistry showed slightly elevated plasma ammonia level with no evidence of liver injury, and his portal venography revealed no port-systemic shunt.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFavourable prognosis following variceal haemorrhage complicating hepatic sarcoidosis.
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol
February 1995
Department of Gastroenterology, Countess of Chester Hospital, UK.
Objective: To report the case of a patient with bleeding oesophageal varices due to portal hypertension complicating hepatic sarcoidosis.
Patient: A 43-year-old man.
Methods: Six subsequent bleeds over 12 years were treated with sclerotherapy.
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