An interesting case of Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease: Persistent left umbilical vein in a 50 year old man
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.71152/ajms.v2i1.3223Keywords:
Portal hypertension; Periumbilical veinAbstract
A middle aged man of 50 years presented with features of portal hypertension without any features of liver decompensation or cirrhosis, found to have abnormal flow pattern in peri-umbilical vein, confirmed by Doppler to have a patent left umbilical vein. This represents a very treatable cause of portal hypertension as ligation of vein may result in complete reversal of disease process. The case also outlines importance of routine general examination like of seeing the direction of flow in periumbilical veins even in obvious cases of portal hypertension that helped us in detection of this case.
Key Words: Portal hypertension; Periumbilical vein
DOI: 10.3126/ajms.v2i1.3780
Asian Journal of Medical Sciences 2 (2011) 63-64
Downloads
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Asian Journal of Medical Sciences
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- The journal holds copyright and publishes the work under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license that permits use, distribution and reprduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. The journal should be recognised as the original publisher of this work.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
