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Abdominal computed tomography. Arrows indicate shunt. Shunt diameter at admission (a, b - with b having been prepared from a) is equal to that from 7 years prior (c).
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Abdominal computed tomography with image contrast medium (fig. 1) revealed a rough liver surface and a shunt of unchanged diameter since its diagnosis 7 years earlier.
Angiogram of B-RTO. A catheter is successively inserted into the right femoral vein, inferior vena cava, left renal vein, and shunt. Subsequently, the proximal region is occluded with a balloon (arrow), and the distal region is embolized with ethanolamine oleate.
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B-RTO was therefore performed with ethanolamine oleate to occlude the shunt (fig. 2).