Pulmonary hypertension due to micro-thromboembolism from splenic and portal veins after portacaval anastomosis

Open Access

1 March 1970

journal article
case report
Published by BMJ in Heart

Vol. 32 (2), 269-271
https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.32.2.269

Abstract

This is a presentation of a unique case of pulmonary hypertension in a 15-year-old girl, due to micro-thromboembolism from splenoportal veins through a portacaval anastomosis.

Keywords

MICRO THROMBOEMBOLISM
DUE TO MICRO
HYPERTENSION DUE
VEINS AFTER PORTACAVAL
SPLENOPORTAL
SPLENIC

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Recurrent Pulmonary Embolism and Cor Pulmonale
New England Journal of Medicine, 1967
PULMONARY-EMBOLIC DISEASE
The Lancet, 1962

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