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Yoko Kawai1, Yusuke Kita1, Kosuke Nishikawa1
1Department of Pediatrics, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Cardiology in the Young
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Abstract:
Portosystemic venous shunts occur in patients with polysplenia after the Fontan operation. In the long term, these shunts are associated with hyperammonaemia and portal-systemic encephalopathy. Since some shunts are long and tortuous, catheter interventions to close them could be challenging. Instead, a steerable microcatheter could be used for coil embolisation of tortuous portosystemic venous shunts.
