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SUBMITTER: Jamshidi N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9400816 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jamshidi Neema N Kee Stephen T ST
Cardiovascular and interventional radiology 20200724 11
Although sequelae of chronic liver disease are the most common causes of altered pressure dynamics in the portal and splanchnic circulations, there are other mechanisms resulting in increased venous pressures with subsequent development of splenic and gastric varices. We report a case of a patient without portal hypertension, but with bleeding gastric varices with a presumed splenorenal shunt (SRS) on CT. Venography revealed flow reversal through the shunt (directed from the renal vein, into the ...[more]