351. Successful liver transplantation for congenital absence of the portal vein complicated by intrapulmonary shunt and brain abscess
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Hironori Haga, Mikiko Ueda, Kohei Ogawa, Hideya Kamei, Yasuhiro Ogura, Hiraku Doi, Mureo Kasahara, Koichi Tanaka, E.Y. Yoshitoshi, and Yasuharu Ohnishi
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Apnea ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Brain Abscess ,Gestational Age ,Vena Cava, Inferior ,Infant, Premature, Diseases ,Liver transplantation ,Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt ,Heart Septal Defects, Atrial ,Hypoxemia ,Seizures ,Convulsion ,medicine ,Living Donors ,Birth Weight ,Humans ,Abnormalities, Multiple ,Meningitis ,Hypoxia ,Brain abscess ,business.industry ,Portal Vein ,Infant, Newborn ,Brain ,General Medicine ,Infant, Low Birth Weight ,medicine.disease ,Combined Modality Therapy ,Hydrocephalus ,Surgery ,Shunt (medical) ,Anti-Bacterial Agents ,Liver Transplantation ,Transplantation ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Drainage ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,Atrophy ,business ,Infant, Premature ,Spleen - Abstract
A 27-day-old boy had convulsion associated with brain abscesses and severe hypoxemia at the age of 3 months. Congenital absence of the portal vein (CAPV) and some associated anomalies were detected by radiological examinations. Brain abscess and hypoxemia were thought to be serious complications resulting from CAPV and were successfully corrected by living donor liver transplantation at the age of 4 months. This is the first report of a successful transplantation indicated for intrapulmonary shunt and brain abscess in an infant with CAPV.
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- 2005