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Hemodynamic Measurements and Correction by Balloon Membranotomy and Surgical Resection

Masumasa Horisawa, MD; Taro Yokoyama, MD; Hans Juttner, MD; Telfer B. Reynolds, MD

Arch Surg. 1976;111(5):599-602.

Abstract
• This report discusses a patient with chronic liver disease and portal hypertension, initially thought to be caused by chronic bile duct obstruction or chronic hepatitis B. For evaluation of portal hypertension, hepatic vein catheterization was performed, disclosing incomplete membranous obstruction of the inferior vena cava at the level of the diaphragm-the probable cause of the liver disease. The obstruction was corrected by balloon membranotomy and surgical resection of the membrane. Hepatic vein catheterization in patients with chronic liver disease and portal hypertension allows detection of this lesion as well as evaluation of hepatic and portal hemodynamics.

(Arch Surg 111:599-602, 1976)

Author Affiliations
From the departments of medicine (Drs Horisawa and Reynolds), chest surgery (Dr Yokoyama), and radiology (Dr Juttner), University of Southern California School of Medicine and John Wesley County Hospital, Los Angeles. Dr Horisawa is now with the Department of Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 16, 1976.

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