title: Hepatic encephalopathy secondary to intrahepatic portosystemic venous shunt: balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous embolization with n-butyl cyanoacrylate and microcoils.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Takuji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamagami
authors.forename: Toshiyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Shigeharu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iida
authors.forename: Takeharu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Shigenori
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsushima
authors.forename: Hirotoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Chio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Okuyama
authors.forename: Yo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ushijima
authors.forename: Kensuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shiga
authors.forename: Tsunehiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nishimura
mesh_terms: 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*