title: Congenital portosystemic shunts and AMPLATZER vascular plug occlusion in newborns.
abstract: Congenital portosystemic shunts (CPSs) may cause myriad manifestations. They can be detected prenatally, in infancy, or later. They may involute, cause acute symptoms, or remain unrecognized and cause chronic disease. As CPSs can require treatment, early diagnosis allows close monitoring. In symptomatic patients, interventional catheterization embolization of CPSs can be undertaken at any age.
authors.affiliation: Children's Heart Center-Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89109, USA. WNevans50@aol.com
authors.forename: William N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Alvaro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Galindo
authors.forename: Ruben J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Acherman
authors.forename: Abraham
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rothman
authors.forename: Dean P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Berthoty
mesh_terms: D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005317:Fetal Growth Retardation; D006801:Humans; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011168:Portal System / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012307:Risk Factors; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal; D054079:Vascular Malformations / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000196:embryology / Q000601:surgery*; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging