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Transient chylous ascites following a distal splenorenal shunt
Y Edoute1, P Nagachandran, A Assalia
1Department of Internal Medicine C, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
Hepato-Gastroenterology
|May 3, 2000
Abstract:
The development of chylous ascites following abdominal surgery is an infrequent yet alarming complication. We present a patient in whom chylous ascites was diagnosed 6 days after a distal splenorenal shunt. Ten days following bed rest, sodium restriction, and a low-fat diet with medium-chain triglyceride supplementation the ascites resolved.