Year 2018 / Volume 110 / Number 6
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Hepatic encephalopathy secondary to a splenorenal shunt that manifested a long time after a liver transplantation

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2018.5370/2017

Paula Tomás Pujante, Andrés Francisco Jiménez Sánchez, Elena Iglesias Jorquera, José Antonio Pons Miñano,

Abstract
Splenorenal shunts are a rare cause of hyperammonemia and hepatic encephalopathy in the absence of cirrhosis. We report the case of a woman, who presented hepatic encephalopathy, with a normal functioning graft, after 14 years of liver transplantation, confirmed by liver biopsy.
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Tomás Pujante P, Jiménez Sánchez A, Iglesias Jorquera E, Pons Miñano J. Hepatic encephalopathy secondary to a splenorenal shunt that manifested a long time after a liver transplantation. 5370/2017


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Publication history

Received: 12/11/2017

Accepted: 21/01/2018

Online First: 12/04/2018

Published: 31/05/2018

Article revision time: 61 days

Article Online First time: 151 days

Article editing time: 200 days


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