Hepatic encephalopathy secondary to intrahepatic portosystemic venous shunt: balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous embolization with n-butyl cyanoacrylate and microcoils.
We report a 70-year-old woman with hepatic encephalopathy due to an intrahepatic portosystemic venous shunt that was successfully occluded by percutaneous transcatheter embolization with n-butyl cyanoacrylate and microcoils.
Yamagami
Takuji
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Department of Radiology and Neurology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-chyo, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan. yamagami@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp
Nakamura
Toshiyuki
T
Iida
Shigeharu
S
Kato
Takeharu
T
Tanaka
Osamu
O
Matsushima
Shigenori
S
Ito
Hirotoshi
H
Okuyama
Chio
C
Ushijima
Yo
Y
Shiga
Kensuke
K
Nishimura
Tsunehiko
T
D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D021721:Balloon Occlusion / Q000379:methods*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006501:Hepatic Encephalopathy / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006503:Hepatic Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*