Stent placement in a splenic vein stenosis after TIPS creation.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A hemodynamically significant splenic vein stenosis was found during placement of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in a patient with gastric variceal bleeding. A second stent was placed across the splenic vein stenosis, which was obstructing normal hepatopetal flow, causing venous hypertension in the splenic and short gastric veins. This produced a successful hemodynamic and angiographic result and, clinically, controlled the patient's bleeding.
Medical subject headings
- Esophageal and Gastric Varices
- Hypertension, Portal
- Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical
- Splenic Vein
- Stents