Malpositioning of intravascular stent during transfemoral repair of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt: fixation with another intravascular stent.
The author describes a 43-year-old man in whom an intravascular stent was dislodged into the inferior vena cava during repair of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt. The malpositioned stent was fixed in position by another stent to prevent central embolization.
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Department of Medical Imaging, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, North York, Ont.
D000328:Adult; D004868:Equipment Failure; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D011170:Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012086:Reoperation; D015607:Stents; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior