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Retrograde gastric varices in a patient with total cavopulmonary shunt
A Furuse1, K Koseni, M Takeshita
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 1, 1993
Abstract:
Gastric varices formed in a patient who had undergone a total cavopulmonary shunt operation 7 years previously. The varices were found to be due to development of collaterals from high-pressure systemic vein to low-pressure portal vein. Bleeding gastric varix can be a late complication of total cavopulmonary shunt.