[Nonstandard vascular anastomoses in the surgery of portal hypertension]

The non-standard porto-caval vascular anastomoses were performed in 32 patients in a series of 167 patients operated for portal hypertension. Some special features of certain variants of non-standard shunt operations, their near and late results are described. It was shown that the use of non-standard porto-caval vascular anastomoses under unfavourable topographo-anatomical conditions extends the possibilities of decompression of the portal system in patients with syndrome of portal hypertension.