Angiography in portal hypertension

Gastroenterol Clin North Am. 1992 Mar;21(1):61-83.

Abstract

In this article, various angiographic techniques that may be useful in the assessment of portal hemodynamics are described with illustrative angiograms, providing examples of celiac arteriography; arterial venography; transsplenic, umbilical, operative, and transhepatic portography; hepatic venography; and other techniques. When they are combined with other imaging modalities, the information gained increases. Interventional and therapeutic angiography, such as angiographic occlusion of a large shunt causing encephalopathy or of an arterioportal shunt, widening of a narrowed shunt, and perforation of membranous obstruction of the inferior vena cava, is discussed.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Catheterization
  • Celiac Artery / diagnostic imaging
  • Hepatic Veins / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Portal / diagnosis
  • Hypertension, Portal / diagnostic imaging*
  • Hypertension, Portal / therapy
  • Intraoperative Care
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Phlebography
  • Portal Vein / diagnostic imaging*
  • Portography / methods
  • Skin
  • Splenic Vein / diagnostic imaging*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Umbilical Veins / diagnostic imaging*