Spontaneous porto‐femoral shunting in long‐standing portal hypertension

Spontaneous portosystemic shunting is a compensation mechanism that is supposed to relieve the portal circulation from high pressures. Here we report an unusual shunt that originates from a patent paraumbilical vein and reaches the femoral vein via the inferior epigastric vein. Despite being merely...

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Autores principales: Giuffrè, Mauro, Martingano, Paola, Crocè, Lory Saveria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Clinical Image
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7495742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32983509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2947
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description Spontaneous portosystemic shunting is a compensation mechanism that is supposed to relieve the portal circulation from high pressures. Here we report an unusual shunt that originates from a patent paraumbilical vein and reaches the femoral vein via the inferior epigastric vein. Despite being merely anecdotal, this finding is fascinating from an anatomical point of view.
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spelling pubmed-74957422020-09-24 Spontaneous porto‐femoral shunting in long‐standing portal hypertension Giuffrè, Mauro Martingano, Paola Crocè, Lory Saveria Clin Case Rep Clinical Image Spontaneous portosystemic shunting is a compensation mechanism that is supposed to relieve the portal circulation from high pressures. Here we report an unusual shunt that originates from a patent paraumbilical vein and reaches the femoral vein via the inferior epigastric vein. Despite being merely anecdotal, this finding is fascinating from an anatomical point of view. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7495742/ /pubmed/32983509 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2947 Text en © 2020 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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Giuffrè, Mauro
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Spontaneous porto‐femoral shunting in long‐standing portal hypertension
title Spontaneous porto‐femoral shunting in long‐standing portal hypertension
title_full Spontaneous porto‐femoral shunting in long‐standing portal hypertension
title_fullStr Spontaneous porto‐femoral shunting in long‐standing portal hypertension
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous porto‐femoral shunting in long‐standing portal hypertension
title_short Spontaneous porto‐femoral shunting in long‐standing portal hypertension
title_sort spontaneous porto‐femoral shunting in long‐standing portal hypertension
topic Clinical Image
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7495742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32983509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2947
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