Chronic hepatic encephalopathy due to spontaneous splenorenal shunt: Successful treatment by transhepatic shunt embolization

✍ Scribed by Didier Vavasseur; Christophe Duvoux; Daniel Cherqui; Serge Derhy; Alain Rahmouni; Daniel Dhumeaux; Didier Mathieu

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 735 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1432-086X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00192456

✦ Synopsis

A spontaneous splenorenal shunt, leading to chronic hepatic encephalopathy, was treated by transhepatic occlusion with coils and Enbucrylate. There were no complications. Hepatic encephalopathy subsided.