title: Treatment of hepatic encephalopathy by retrograde transcaval coil embolization of an ileal vein-to-right gonadal vein portosystemic shunt.
abstract: A 43-year-old non-cirrhotic woman suffered from encephalopathy caused by an extrahepatic portosystemic shunt between the ileal vein and inferior vena cava via the right gonadal vein. Percutaneous transcatheter embolization with stainless steel coils was performed by the retrograde systemic venous approach. Encephalopathy improved dramatically.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nishie
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshimitsu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Honda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaneko
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuroiwa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukuya
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Irie
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ninomiya
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshimitsu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hirakata
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Okuda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Masuda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006501:Hepatic Encephalopathy / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum / Q000098:blood supply*; D011168:Portal System / Q000503:physiopathology; D014680:Veins; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior