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內科學誌 -第29卷第6期

病例 
Portal-systemic Shunt Causing Hepatic Encephalopathy – A Case Report  全文閱讀
401~407 
英文 
Portal-systemic shunt、Hepatic encephalopathy、Disturbance of consciousness、Noncirrhotic 
游博全1 、葉文俊1 、張行遠2 、宋之維3 、吳茲端1  
新北市立聯合醫院內科部1 、新北市立聯合醫院放射科2 、國立臺灣大學醫學院附設醫院急診醫學部3  
Portal-systemic shunt, spontaneous connection between systemic veins and portal vein system, is a rare cause among the patients with hepatic encephalopathy. We reported a case of 57-year-old male with extrahepatic portal-systemic shunt who presented with repeated episodes of disturbance of consciousness and characteristic images of abdominal sonography, contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography and 3D reconstruction images. There are a few reports in the literature about symptomatic portal-systemic shunt presented in adulthood and it may be misdiagnosed as psychological diseases. So the diagnosis of this rare disease may rely on abdominal image studies only and associated symptoms may be resolved by avoidance of precipitating factors, surgical occlusion or radiological obliteration.