Portal Vein Aneurysm Presenting with Obstructive Jaundice

To the best of our knowledge, a portal vein aneurysm presenting with obstructive jaundice has not been reported in the literature. The preferred treatment for these aneurysms is surgical and a shunting procedure should be considered in cases with portal hypertension to preserve portal vein flow when...

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Main Authors:	Lall, Chandana, Verma, Sadhna, Gulati, Rajesh, Bhargava, Puneet
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440936/

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spelling	pubmed-34409362012-10-01 Portal Vein Aneurysm Presenting with Obstructive Jaundice Lall, Chandana Verma, Sadhna Gulati, Rajesh Bhargava, Puneet Case Report To the best of our knowledge, a portal vein aneurysm presenting with obstructive jaundice has not been reported in the literature. The preferred treatment for these aneurysms is surgical and a shunting procedure should be considered in cases with portal hypertension to preserve portal vein flow when portal hypertension is present or is secondary to the aneurysm itself. In our case, due to patient's advanced age and co-morbidities, an endoscopic biliary stent was placed which led to successful resolution of symptoms of obstructive jaundice. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3440936/ /pubmed/23029637 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2156-7514.100377 Text en Copyright: © 2012 Lall C. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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author	Lall, Chandana Verma, Sadhna Gulati, Rajesh Bhargava, Puneet
spellingShingle	Lall, Chandana Verma, Sadhna Gulati, Rajesh Bhargava, Puneet Portal Vein Aneurysm Presenting with Obstructive Jaundice
author_facet	Lall, Chandana Verma, Sadhna Gulati, Rajesh Bhargava, Puneet
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title	Portal Vein Aneurysm Presenting with Obstructive Jaundice
title_short	Portal Vein Aneurysm Presenting with Obstructive Jaundice
title_full	Portal Vein Aneurysm Presenting with Obstructive Jaundice
title_fullStr	Portal Vein Aneurysm Presenting with Obstructive Jaundice
title_full_unstemmed	Portal Vein Aneurysm Presenting with Obstructive Jaundice
title_sort	portal vein aneurysm presenting with obstructive jaundice
description	To the best of our knowledge, a portal vein aneurysm presenting with obstructive jaundice has not been reported in the literature. The preferred treatment for these aneurysms is surgical and a shunting procedure should be considered in cases with portal hypertension to preserve portal vein flow when portal hypertension is present or is secondary to the aneurysm itself. In our case, due to patient's advanced age and co-morbidities, an endoscopic biliary stent was placed which led to successful resolution of symptoms of obstructive jaundice.
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Portal Vein Aneurysm Presenting with Obstructive Jaundice

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