The management of portosystemic shunts in liver transplant recipients relies on appropriate perioperative study. There are several strategies for shunt handling, ranging from preoperative interventional procedures to intraoperative surgical interruption or embolization. Appropriate management often results in a successful outcome, although wrong decisions could lead to serious consequences. Here, we report a liver transplant recipient with grade 2 portal vein thrombosis associated with 2 large portosystemic shunts (coronary and mesocaval), which were managed intraoperatively via thrombectomy without shunt ligation. Acute portal vein thrombosis developed early after transplant due to portal steal syndrome. The patient underwent a successful endovascular shunt embolization, with prompt restoration of hepatopetal portal flow and resolution of the portal steal. Use of interventional radiology in perioperative management of transplant patients has recently gained wider importance; our case reported here is particularly suggestive of the good outcomes of a multidisciplinary approach to a threatening complication such as postoperative acute portal vein thrombosis.
Endovascular Treatment of Acute Posttransplant Portal Vein Thrombosis Due to Portal Steal From Mesocaval And Coronary Portosystemic Shunts / Centonze, Leonardo; Di Sandro, Stefano; Cereda, Marco; Lauterio, Andrea; De Carlis, Riccardo; Migliorisi, Carmelo; Morelli, Francesco; Rampoldi, Antonio; De Carlis, Luciano. - In: EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION. - ISSN 1304-0855. - 18:5(2020), pp. 653-656. [10.6002/ect.2019.0273]
Endovascular Treatment of Acute Posttransplant Portal Vein Thrombosis Due to Portal Steal From Mesocaval And Coronary Portosystemic Shunts
Di Sandro, Stefano;
2020
Abstract
The management of portosystemic shunts in liver transplant recipients relies on appropriate perioperative study. There are several strategies for shunt handling, ranging from preoperative interventional procedures to intraoperative surgical interruption or embolization. Appropriate management often results in a successful outcome, although wrong decisions could lead to serious consequences. Here, we report a liver transplant recipient with grade 2 portal vein thrombosis associated with 2 large portosystemic shunts (coronary and mesocaval), which were managed intraoperatively via thrombectomy without shunt ligation. Acute portal vein thrombosis developed early after transplant due to portal steal syndrome. The patient underwent a successful endovascular shunt embolization, with prompt restoration of hepatopetal portal flow and resolution of the portal steal. Use of interventional radiology in perioperative management of transplant patients has recently gained wider importance; our case reported here is particularly suggestive of the good outcomes of a multidisciplinary approach to a threatening complication such as postoperative acute portal vein thrombosis.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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