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Percutaneous recanalization and dilatation of a thrombotically occluded superior vena cava in a patient with a
T Meinertz1, W Kasper, S Löhr-Schwaab
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Freiburg, F.R.G.
Journal of Hepatology
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
A superior vena cava syndrome developed in a patient with liver cirrhosis 6 months after implantation of a peritoneovenous shunt. Local fibrinolytic therapy resulted only in a transient improvement of clinical symptoms. Persistent patency of the superior vena cava and shunt function was regained only after percutaneous recanalization and balloon dilatation of the thrombotically occluded caval vein.