Symptomatic portal biliopathy: a single centre experience from the UK

Ye Htun Oo, Simon Olliff, Geoffrey Haydon, Douglas Thorburn

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Abstract

Biliary obstruction as a consequence of portal biliopathy, because of extrahepatic portal vein occlusion is an uncommon cause of biliary disease in the western world. We reviewed all patients presenting to the Regional Liver Transplant Unit in Birmingham, UK with symptomatic portal biliopathy between 1992 and 2005 and report the presentation, investigation, management and outcome of these complex patients.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)206-213
JournalEuropean Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Volume21
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2009

Keywords

  • Young Adult
  • Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical
  • Humans
  • Prognosis
  • Portal Vein
  • Child
  • Constriction, Pathologic
  • Hypertension, Portal
  • Child, Preschool
  • Jaundice, Obstructive
  • Cholestasis, Extrahepatic
  • Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde
  • Adult
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Esophageal and Gastric Varices
  • Venous Thrombosis
  • Stents
  • Middle Aged
  • Adolescent
  • Female
  • Male

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