Congenital portosystemic shunts and AMPLATZER vascular plug occlusion in newborns.
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.
Evans
William N
WN
Children's Heart Center-Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89109, USA. WNevans50@aol.com
Galindo
Alvaro
A
Acherman
Ruben J
RJ
Rothman
Abraham
A
Berthoty
Dean P
DP
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