Surgical treatment of ascites, with peritoneovenous shunt

At Shaikh Zayed Hospital, during the past one year, Leveen peritoneovenous shunt has been used to palliate three patient with ascites due to portal hypertension refractory to medical measures. Standard procedure of shunt placement was adopted as described by Leveen et al in 1974. Peritoneovenous shunt functioned well in all the three patient providing good palliation. Two patients were followed upto 14 weeks, the third patient did well upto the 2nd week, when he was lost to follow-up we have found the procedure simple and very effective. The preliminary reports is presented alongwith a brief review of the subject