Acute Life-Threatening Portal Hypertension After Portosystemic Shunt Embolization

Am J Gastroenterol. 2017 May;112(5):816-818. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2017.62.

Authors

Saad A Khan¹, Cecilia Pham¹, Dean Seah¹, Dinesh Ranatunga², Paul J Gow^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology and Liver Transplant Unit, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Radiology, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

PMID: 28469231
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2017.62

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Angiography, Digital Subtraction
Embolization, Therapeutic / adverse effects*
Humans
Hypertension, Portal / diagnosis
Hypertension, Portal / etiology*
Hypertension, Portal / physiopathology
Male
Middle Aged
Portal Vein / diagnostic imaging
Portal Vein / physiopathology
Portasystemic Shunt, Transjugular Intrahepatic*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed