[Spontaneous intrahepatic porto-cava shunt associated with chronic pericarditis. A case report].
BACKGROUND
Spontaneous intrahepatic portosystemic shunts are rare vascular anomalies that consist of a communication between the portal system and the systemic venous circulation. We report a case of a porto-caval shunt associated with chronic pericarditis.


METHODS
A 47-year-old patient with post pericarditis cirrhosis and without encephalopathy and hypoglycaemia. The shunt was tubular in its initial segment and aneurismal just before joining the vena cava.


CONCLUSIONS
Spontaneous intrahepatic portosystemic shunt is a rare anomaly. Diagnosis can be made by Doppler ultrasound and helical CT.
Nouira
Kais
K
Service de Radiologie, Hôpital La Rabta, Tunis, Tunisie.
Daghfous
Alifa
A
Maamouri
Nadia
N
Salem
Abdessalem
A
Menif
Emna
E
Cheikh
Imed
I
Ben Mami
Nabil
N
Slim
Rachid
R
D000783:Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000150:complications*; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000473:pathology*; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color; D016157:Vascular Fistula / Q000209:etiology*; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000473:pathology*