Stent graft closure of a high flow splenorenal shunt after liver transplantation
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Interventional Radiology - Case Report 2016

Stent graft closure of a high flow splenorenal shunt after liver transplantation

Diagn Interv Radiol 2010;16(4):312-314 DOI: 10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.2398-08.1
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Abstract

We describe a patient after liver transplantation with a preexisting surgical splenorenal shunt close to the confluence of the splenic and superior mesenteric veins and a wide, short communication between the splenic and renal veins. To close the shunt, an inferior vena cava filter was inserted in the shunt and a vascular plug was placed in the splenic vein inside the filter. When this failed to stop the flow through the shunt, a covered stent was deployed at the superior mesenteric veinportal vein junction.

Keywords: interventional radiology, liver transplantation, splenorenal shunt