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Helena Boixadera1, Alejandro Tomasello, Sergi Quiroga
1Department of Radiology, Hospital Vall d' Hebron, Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron 119-129, Barcelona, Spain. hboixadera@hotmail.com
Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
|November 13, 2009
Abstract:
A 48-year-old man with alcoholic liver cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy was found to have a large, spontaneous mesocaval shunt. The shunt was successfully occluded with the use of an Amplatzer Vascular Plug. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the use of this device to embolize a mesocaval shunt involving the superior mesenteric vein.
