With the recent development of venous-shunt surgery for the relief of portal hypertension a relatively large group of such patients have become available for study. This report represents ten ...

Intrahepatic portal–systemic venous shunts of this magnitude have not previously been described in either normal or cirrhotic livers of vertebrates. Using colored gelatin injection technics ...

The therapeutic principle of portosystemic shunting is to convert the portal vein into an outflow tract (reversed portal flow), thus decompressing the sinusoids. Thrombosis or compression of the ...

Symptoms may be caused by blood flowing directly from the intestines and spleen into the systemic veins (portosystemic shunts ...

Congenital portosystemic shunts (CPSS) and Abernethy malformation are rare vascular anomalies that involve abnormal connections between the portal venous system and the systemic circulation.