portosystemic shunts
Multiple acquired portosystemic shunts in a cat secondary to chronic diaphragmatic rupture
... Case summary A cat with a chronic diaphragmatic rupture presented with neurological signs, including twitching and focal seizures. Blood ammonia level was markedly elevated and therefore neurological signs were thought ...
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Intrahepatic congenital portosystemic shunts in dogs: short- and long-term outcome of suture attenuation
... congenital portosystemic shunts (CPSS) are seen less commonly in dogs than their extrahepatic counterparts, making up approximately 25-33% of the total (Berent and Tobias 2009, Berent and Tobias ...
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Markers of Angiogenesis Associated with Surgical Attenuation of Congenital Portosystemic Shunts in Dogs
... congenital portosystemic shunts (CPSS) have decreased portal blood supply and hence an underdeveloped intrahepatic portal vasculature as assessed by ...
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Novel Technique of Multislice CT Angiography for Diagnosis of Portosystemic Shunts in Sedated Dogs
... Diagnosing portosystemic shunts (PSS) can be challenging in veterinary patients. Multiple imaging techniques have been described to diagnose PSS. The aim of the study was to investigate whether a novel ...
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<p>Portosystemic shunts and refractory hepatic encephalopathy: patient selection and current options</p>
... canal. Portosystemic shunts (PSs) grow by the degree of portal hypertension, and large shunts (defined as those with a diameter ≥ 8 mm) can clinically lead to “PS ...splenorenal shunts are the ...
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Hyperammonemia and Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Predicts Presence of Hepatic Encephalopathy in Dogs with Congenital Portosystemic Shunts
... termed portosystemic shunts (cPSS), which link the portal vein directly with the systemic circulation ...Congenital portosystemic shunt is one of the most common congenital abnormalities diagnosed in ...
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Lipopolysaccharide and toll-like receptor 4 in dogs with congenital portosystemic shunts
... degree of portal blood flow and significantly increases following partial CPSS. 495[r] ...
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Post temporary ligation intra operative mesenteric portovenography: comparison with computed tomographic angiography for investigation of portosystemic shunts
... vascular enhancement on TFL-IOMP. Variation in the pre-operative CTA appearance of the intrahepatic vasculature with shunts involving the right gastric vein has been described previously (Parry and White 2017). ...
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New perspectives on the development of extrahepatic portosystemic shunts
... The presence and distribution of venous valves would determine in which of the tributary portal vessels this abnormal ‘preferential’ blood flow would develop... Since this preferential f[r] ...
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Comparison of computed tomographic angiography and intraoperative mesenteric portovenography for extrahepatic portosystemic shunts
... identified in patients with a splenocaval shunt or shunts involving the left colic vein, but was.. consistently identified in those patients with a shunt involving the right gastric vein[r] ...
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Implications of shunt morphology for the surgical management of extrahepatic portosystemic shunts
... Aii and Aiii right gastro-caval shunts, 2 left phrenic vein at the level of the oesophageal hiatus.. left gastro-phrenic shunts, 3 azygos vein at the level of the aortic hiatus gastro-az[r] ...
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Attenuation of Congenital Portosystemic Shunt Reduces Inflammation in Dogs
... importance of inflammation in driving hepatic encephalopathy in dogs, it is unclear whether inflammation resolves following the successful treatment of liver disease. We hypothesized that haematological and biochemical ...
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Prenatal diagnosis of intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in intrauterine growth restricted fetus with transient fetal anemia and cardiomegaly: A case report
... Introduction: congenital intrahepatic portosystemic shunts are abnormal communications between hepatic and portal vessels. We present a case of antenatally diagnosed portohepatic shunt in intrauterine ...
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Case Report Congenital multiple intrahepatic portosystemic shunt: an autopsy case
... multiple shunts between the peripheral parts of the hepatic veins and portal veins (Figure 1), which were thought to be portosystemic-venous shunts of unknown ...Extrahepatic portosystemic ...
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Health-related quality of life following surgical attenuation of congenital portosystemic shunt versus a healthy control population of dogs
... TITLE: Health‐related quality of life following surgical attenuation of congenital portosystemic shunts versus healthy controls2. AUTHORS: P.3[r] ...
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CASE SERIES: PORTOSYSTEMIC COLLATERALS
... Portal hypertension is a common clinical problem. It has a variety of presentations, as do portosystemic shunts in imaging. MDCT contrast enhanced can accurately demonstrate majority of these collateral ...
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Evaluation of Venous Ammonia Level, Splenic Longitudinal Diameter, Portal Vein and Splenic Vein Diameters as Non Invasive Indicators for the Presence of Portosystemic Collaterals in Egyptian Cirrhotic Patients
... Our data showed that the positive likelihood ratios of the different cut-off values are good. However, the spe- cificity for the cut-off ratio 0.90 is low but had a good diagnostic accuracy (71%), PVD and ammonia level ...
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Hypoxia due to intrapulmonary vascular dilatation in a toddler with a congenital portacaval shunt: case report
... congenital portosystemic shunts, which can be either extrahepatic or intrahepatic ...the portosystemic shunts usually leads to complete resolution of the hepatopulmonary syndrome [2, ...
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Transhepatic Embolization of Congenital Intrahepatic Portosystemic Venous Shunts with Associated Aneurysms
... of portosystemic shunts [17]. Symptomatic portosys- temic shunts warrant therapeutic ...IIa shunts whereas type IIb shunt usually requires staged operative closure because of short and wide ...
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Asymptomatic Intrahepatic Portosystemic Venous Shunt: Case Report and Review of Literature
... The most common cause of intrahepatic shuntsiscirrhosis and hepatic tumors (like focal nodular hyperplasia and hepatocellular carcinoma). Its prevalence is unknown, varying in screening studies of patients with risk ...
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