A case of fatal cutaneous caput medusae hemorrhage

Alcoholic liver cirrhosis leads to portal venous hypertension, which can result in a caput medusae formation. Life‐threatening hemorrhage from a ruptured caput medusae vein is a rare complication. It is crucial to stop the bleeding promptly. A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt is conside...

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Autores principales: Melas, Nikolaos, Haji Younes, Amil, Magnusson, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6406136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30899470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1996
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description Alcoholic liver cirrhosis leads to portal venous hypertension, which can result in a caput medusae formation. Life‐threatening hemorrhage from a ruptured caput medusae vein is a rare complication. It is crucial to stop the bleeding promptly. A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt is considered potentially lifesaving.
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spelling pubmed-64061362019-03-21 A case of fatal cutaneous caput medusae hemorrhage Melas, Nikolaos Haji Younes, Amil Magnusson, Peter Clin Case Rep Case Reports Alcoholic liver cirrhosis leads to portal venous hypertension, which can result in a caput medusae formation. Life‐threatening hemorrhage from a ruptured caput medusae vein is a rare complication. It is crucial to stop the bleeding promptly. A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt is considered potentially lifesaving. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6406136/ /pubmed/30899470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1996 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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