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Acute myocardial infarction after selective portal-systemic shunt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2006

K. O. Sun
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia, Kwong Wah Hospital, Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Abstract

A case of myocardial infarction following a distal splenorenal shunt, a selective portal-systemic shunt, in a cirrhotic patient is reported. The post-operative cardiac morbidity was probably related to the hyperdynamic cardiovascular state associated with liver cirrhosis and the increase in intramyocardial tension upon formation of the distal splenorenal shunt.

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1996 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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