BACKGROUND Acute thrombosis of the portal vein (PV) and/or the mesenteric vein (MV) is a rare but potentially life-threatening disease. A multitude of risk factors for acute portal vein thrombosis (PVT)/mesenteric vein thrombosis (MVT) have been identified, including liver cirrhosis, malignancy, coagulation disorders, intra-abdominal infection/inflammation, and postoperative condition. METHOD...

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is now the gold standard for the treatment of symptomatic cholelithiasis. Portal venous thrombosis after laparoscopic cholecystectomy is rare. We report a case of thrombosis of the portal venous system after laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a patient with a latent prothrombin gene mutation. An abdominal computed tomography and magnetic resonance angiogram of the abd...

ing a mixture of carcinomatous and sarcomatous elements (1). Liver carcinosarcomas are classified as two types including sarcomatoid hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cholangiocarcinoma. A sarcomatoid HCC is a carcinoma that most resembles a sarcoma found in the liver. Only a few cases of intrahepatic sarcomatoid cholangiocarcinomas have been reported (1-6). To the best of our knowledge, an in...

Inflammatory bowel diseases are associated with an increased risk of vascular complications. The most important are arterial and venous thromboembolisms, which are considered as specific extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel diseases. Among venous thromboembolism events, portal vein thrombosis has been described in inflammatory bowel diseases. We report three cases of portal vein...

CONTEXT Venous thrombosis has been described in patients with acute and chronic pancreatitis. This is especially common in portal vein, splenic vein and superior mesenteric vein. To the best of our knowledge, involvement of superior vena cava and subclavian vessel due to pancreatitis has not been reported. CASE REPORT We present here a case of an adult male with alcoholic chronic pancreatitis...

Chylous ascites is defined as the accumulation of chyle in the peritoneum due to obstruction or rupture of the peritoneal or retroperitoneal lymphatic glands. Chylous ascites that arises from acute pancreatitis with portal vein thrombosis is very rare. We report here on a case of chylous ascite that was caused by acute pancreatitis with portal vein thrombosis, in which the patient showed an imp...

We describe an immunocompetent adult with acute cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection complicated by extensive portal vein thrombosis. A literature review on the incidence, presentation, pathophysiology and management of CMV-associated thrombosis is included. Previously thought to be a rare complication, recent large case series and the present case reconfirm the increasing prevalence of CMV-associat...

BACKGROUND Live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for patients with portal vein thrombosis (PVT) creates several technical challenges due to severe pre-operative condition and extensive collaterals. Although deceased donor liver transplantation in patients with PVT is now routinely performed at most centers, the impact of PVT on LDLT outcomes is still controversial. OBJECTIVE To determine th...

A male patient with portal hypertension, portal vein thrombosis, spontaneous splenorenal shunt formation, and encephalopathy, thought to have post-hepatitis B cirrhosis, is described. His condition deteriorated and necessitated liver transplantation. In the explant liver, nodular regenerative hyperplasia with pronounced vascular lesions both in portal venules and in arterioles was found instead...