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José Lipsich1, Luis Rojas, José Alonso
1Department of Interventional Radiology, Hospital de Pediatría Prof JP Garrahan, Combate de los Pozos 1881 (1245), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
We report a case of a 17-year-old patient with severe hematuria from an ileocystoplasty-augmented bladder for vesical exstrophy, with associated cirrhosis secondary to autoimmune hepatitis, diagnosed years later. Varix development and further bleeding from ectopic varices, related to cirrhosis and portal hypertension, are a rare cause of hematuria in patients with surgically augmented bladder volume. This child was successfully treated with a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt procedure as a bridge to hepatic transplantation.
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