Successful Treatment for Hepatic Encephalopathy Aggravated by Portal Vein Thrombosis with Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration

This report presents the case of a 78-year-old female with hepatic encephalopathy due to an inferior mesenteric venous-inferior vena cava shunt. She developed hepatocellular carcinoma affected by hepatitis C virus-related cirrhosis and underwent posterior sectionectomy. Portal vein thrombosis develo...

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Main Authors: Naotaka Hashimoto, Tomohiko Akahoshi, Tetsuya Shoji, Morimasa Tomikawa, Norifumi Tsutsumi, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Akinobu Taketomi, Ken Shirabe, Yoshihiko Maehara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2011-07-01
Series:Case Reports in Gastroenterology
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Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/330287