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Hepatic myelopathy: a rare complication of portacaval shunt
G Mendoza1, J Marti-Fàbregas, J Kulisevsky
1Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
European Neurology
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Myelopathy is a rare complication of chronic liver disease associated with extensive portal-systemic shunt of blood. Its main clinical feature is a spastic paraparesis without sensory or sphincteric impairment. We describe 3 patients who presented hepatic myelopathy following the performance of a portacaval shunt.