BACKGROUND Venous thrombosis is common in nephrotic syndrome, but portal vein thrombosis has a relatively low incidence in patients with nephrotic syndrome. We describe here a case of an 18-year old male student with newly diagnosed nephrotic syndrome that was complicated with portal, splenic and superior mesenteric vein thrombosis. CONCLUSION In the presence of newly diagnosed nephrotic synd...

Massive haemobilia due to rupture of a portal cavernoma is very rare. In our patient the cause for portal vein thrombosis remains obscure in the absence of umbilical sepsis, severe dehydration or a hypercoaguable state. Cavernous transformation has been documented even within a few days of the portal vein getting obstructed; and inflammation resulting from enteritis is a recognised cause of por...

PORTAL VEIN TlIROMBOSIS (PVT) or thrombosis of its tributaries has been a formidable surgical challenge in orthotopic hepatic transplantation (OHT). At one time, PVT was considered a relative contraindication for OHT. However, refinements of the technique to reconstruct the portal vein after thrombosis have included venous grafting procedures (1, 2). The technique of the venous "jump" graft fro...

objectives this study aimed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of transarterial ethanol ablation (tea) for the treatment of hcc with pvtt. methods patients were treated with tea for pvtt under cone-beam computed tomography and traditional transarterial chemoembolization (tace) with epirubicin for intrahepatic lesions. results seventeen men were successfully treated with tace plus tea. the...

INTRODUCTION This case report aims to inform pancreatic surgeons about our perioperative management of intrahepatic portal vein thrombosis caused by an obstruction of hepaticojejunostomy (HJ) after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). CASE PRESENTATION A 65-year-old woman was diagnosed with pancreas head carcinoma involving the superior mesenteric vein (SMV). Pancreaticoduodenectomy combined with SM...

BACKGROUND Patients with Myeloproliferative Neoplasms-(MPN) have a high risk of thrombotic complications. Portal vein thrombosis is a severe complication, which in many cases, appears at the onset of the disease; the risk factors are related to the presence of qualitatively altered thrombocytes and leucocytes, leading to their activation and appearance of leukocytes-platelet-aggregates; anomali...

CONTEXT Portal vein thrombosis refers to a total or partial obstruction of the blood flow in this vein due to a thrombus formation. It is an important cause of portal hypertension in the pediatric age group with high morbidity rates due to its main complication - the upper gastrointestinal bleeding. OBJECTIVE To describe a group of patients with portal vein thrombosis without associated hepat...

Chronic liver disease is a major cause of portal vein thrombosis. Further screening for other thrombotic risk factors in patients with portal vein thrombosis and chronic liver diseases is often neglected. In this paper, we report a case of portal cavernoma in a patient who was diagnosed with alcoholic liver disease and myeloproliferative neoplasm.