In recent years, percutaneous endovascular intervention has become the primary treatment for pediatric post-liver transplantation portal vein stenosis. This procedure is usually performed using a transhepatic approach. Herein, we report the transsplenic endovascular management of a 3-year-old girl with post-liver transplantation, late-onset portal vein occlusion, which occurred after repeated p...

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Venous thrombophilia is the result of clotting changes namely of a hypercoagulable state together with blood flow and vessel wall changes. There is no need for all these components to be present in order for thrombosis to occur. As the matter of fact, thrombosis may occur even if only one of these conditions is present. In clinical practice a combination of factors is usualy seen. In comparison...

Pancreatic pseudocyst is a relatively common occurrence resulting from acute or chronic pancreatitis. However, a rare subset of these patients present with a pseudocyst fistulizing into the portal vein. We present the case of a 58 year-old woman with a rapidly expanding pancreatic pseudocyst with portal venous fistulization causing portal vein thrombosis, in addition to biliary and duodenal obs...

BACKGROUND Inserting a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt by means of interventional radiology has become the procedure of choice for decompression of portal hypertension. The indications and criteria for patient selection have been expanded and refined accordingly. OBJECTIVES To review our experience with TIPS and analyze the results with emphasis on patient selection and indicati...

Partial nodular transformation is a rare condition which affects the perihilar portion of the liver and may cause chronic portal hypertension. This case report describes an elderly woman in whom the condition was confined to the caudate lobe, which had become greatly enlarged and, by external compression of the portal vein at the hilum of the liver, had caused portal vein thrombosis and subsequ...

We report two premature neonates with Candida albicans septic thrombosis of the portal vein who developed, in very early childhood, the sonographic appearance of cavernous transformation of the vessel and/or clinical signs of extrahepatic portal hypertension.

Partial nodular transformation is a rare condition which effects the perihilar portion of the liver and may cause chronic portal hypertension. This case report describes an elderly women in whom the condition was confined to the caudate lobe, which had become greatly enlarged and, by external compression of th portal vein at the hilum of the liver, had caused portal vein thrombosis and subseque...

A variety of pathologic changes may be associated with Banti's syndrome. These may include cirrhosis of the liver, splenic vein thrombosis, cavernomatous transformation of the portal vein and aneurysm of the splenic artery. However, a protracted search of the literature revealed no case of fusiform aneurysm of the portal vein as a result of an enlarged, congested spleen and liver cirrhosis. As ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS The outcome of portal vein thrombosis in relation to associated prothrombotic states has not been evaluated. We assessed current outcome and predictors of bleeding and thrombotic events in a cohort of 136 adults with nonmalignant, noncirrhotic portal vein thrombosis, of whom 84 received anticoagulant therapy. METHODS Multivariate Cox model analysis for event-free survival an...