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Transsplenic endovascular recanalization and stenting of a completely occluded portal vein with jejunal variceal embolization in a pediatric liver transplant recipient

Portal vein thrombosis occurs in 1.4% of pediatric liver transplant candidates and 3.7% of liver transplant recipients. While portal vein recanalization without and with portal vein stenting has been described… Click to show full abstract

Portal vein thrombosis occurs in 1.4% of pediatric liver transplant candidates and 3.7% of liver transplant recipients. While portal vein recanalization without and with portal vein stenting has been described in adult transplant candidates and recipients, it has never been described in the pediatric transplant population. This report presents a pediatric liver transplant recipient with portal hypertension secondary to portal vein thrombosis successfully managed with transsplenic access and subsequent portal vein recanalization and stenting.

Keywords: recanalization stenting; transplant recipient; portal vein; liver transplant; pediatric liver

Journal Title: Pediatric Radiology
Year Published: 2017

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