Hepatic encephalopathy secondary to intrahepatic portosystemic venous shunt: balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous embolization with n-butyl cyanoacrylate and microcoils

Takuji Yamagami; Toshiyuki Nakamura; Shigeharu Iida; Takeharu Kato; Osamu Tanaka; Shigenori Matsushima; Hirotoshi Ito; Chio Okuyama; Yo Ushijima; Kensuke Shiga; Tsunehiko Nishimura

doi:10.1007/s00270-001-0110-y

Hepatic encephalopathy secondary to intrahepatic portosystemic venous shunt: balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous embolization with n-butyl cyanoacrylate and microcoils

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2002 May-Jun;25(3):219-21. doi: 10.1007/s00270-001-0110-y. Epub 2002 Mar 27.

Authors

Takuji Yamagami¹, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Shigeharu Iida, Takeharu Kato, Osamu Tanaka, Shigenori Matsushima, Hirotoshi Ito, Chio Okuyama, Yo Ushijima, Kensuke Shiga, Tsunehiko Nishimura

Affiliation

¹ 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

PMID: 12058220
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-001-0110-y

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.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Angiography
Balloon Occlusion / methods*
Embolization, Therapeutic / methods*
Female
Hepatic Encephalopathy / diagnostic imaging*
Hepatic Encephalopathy / etiology
Hepatic Encephalopathy / therapy*
Hepatic Veins / diagnostic imaging*
Hepatic Veins / pathology*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Angiography
Portal Vein / diagnostic imaging*
Portal Vein / pathology*