Author(s)

Huylmer Lucena Chaves^1*, Mayanna Pinho Batista¹, Germana Bastos Pontes¹, Lia Pontes de Melo¹, José Carlos Godeiro Junior²

¹Instituto São Carlos de Ensino e Pesquisa, Fortaleza, Brazil.
²Hospital São Carlos, Fortaleza, Brazil.

A spontaneous portosystemic shunt is a rare malformation of the liver vessels. The etiology of these shunts is controversial. They can be divided into acquired (most commonly associated with liver cirrhosis) and congenital. Vascular shunts are asymptomatic in the majority of the patients, and when symptomatic were presented by severe complications. The specific way of management can be selected depended on whether the patient was symptomatic or not, and also on the size of the shunt, shunt ratio and whether it was associated with cancer. We will present a clinical case and discuss the importance of the radiological imaging in the screening, diagnosis and follow up of these anomalies.

Intrahepatic Portosystemic Venous Shunt, Venous Shunt, Portal Vein, Ultrasound

Chaves, H. , Batista, M. , Pontes, G. , de Melo, L. and Godeiro Junior, J. (2019) Asymptomatic Intrahepatic Portosystemic Venous Shunt: Case Report and Review of Literature. Open Journal of Radiology, 9, 1-9. doi: 10.4236/ojrad.2019.91001.