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Tunisie Medicale [La]. 2007; 85 (10): 906-908
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Introduction: Spontaneous intrahepatic portosystemic shunts are rare vascular anomalies that consist of a communiation between the portal system and the systemic venous circulation. We report a case of a porto-caval shunt associated with chronic pericarditis
Case report: A 47-year-old patient with post pericarditis cirrhosis and without encephalopathy and hypoglycaemia. The shunt was tubular in its initial segment and aneurismal just before joining the vena cava
Discussion: Spontaneous intrahepatic portosystemic shunt is a rare anomaly. Diagnosis can ve made by Doppler ultrasound and helical CT