title: Living donor liver transplantation for multiple intrahepatic portosystemic shunts after involution of infantile hepatic hemangiomas.
abstract: We describe a 6-year-old girl presenting with multiple intrahepatic portosystemic shunts after the involution of infantile hepatic hemangiomas (IHHs), who successfully underwent living donor liver transplantation. The chronological changes of radiologic findings indicated that remnant portovenous shunts at the time of IHHs involution developed gradually on the background of atrophic intrahepatic portal veins. This suggests that patients should be carefully followed up for the late onset of intrahepatic portosystemic shunts after the involution of IHHs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Transplant Surgery, National Center for Child Health and Development, Setagaya, Tokyo 157-8535, Japan. sakamoto-si@ncchd.go.jp
authors.forename: Seisuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: Mureo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kasahara
authors.forename: Takanobu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shigeta
authors.forename: Akinari
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: Toshihiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kakiuchi
authors.forename: Mikiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miyasaka
authors.forename: Shunsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nosaka
authors.forename: Natsuko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: Atsuko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Reiko
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Horikawa
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006085:Graft Survival; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000151:congenital / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000151:congenital / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D019520:Living Donors; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011170:Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome