Preduodenal portal vein: a potential laparoscopic cholecystectomy nightmare.

Portal vein thrombosis following laparoscopic cholecystectomy complicated by dengue viral infection: a case report

INTRODUCTION Portal vein thrombosis is an uncommon post-operative complication following abdominal surgery. Although therapeutic anticoagulation is recommended, this treatment may be questionable when the patient has an associated bleeding diathesis. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of a 63-year-old woman of Asian Indian ethnicity who developed portal vein thrombosis following an uneventful...

Thrombosis of Portal Venous System after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in a Patient with Prothrombin Gene Mutation

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is now the gold standard for the treatment of symptomatic cholelithiasis. Portal venous thrombosis after laparoscopic cholecystectomy is rare. We report a case of thrombosis of the portal venous system after laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a patient with a latent prothrombin gene mutation. An abdominal computed tomography and magnetic resonance angiogram of the abd...

Portal Vein Thrombosis After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

INTRODUCTION Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a relatively uncommon complication after abdominal surgery. CASE REPORT We report an even more unusual case of PVT 10 days after an uncomplicated laparoscopic cholecystectomy, believed to be only the fourth reported case in the literature of this rare complication. CONCLUSION Albeit extremely rare, PVT should be included in the differential diagn...

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Portal Vein Thrombosis: An Unusual Complication of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

BACKGROUND Complications following laparoscopic cholecystectomy are encountered infrequently due to increasing proficiency in laparoscopic surgery. The occurrence of portal venous thrombosis following laparoscopic cholecystectomy has not been previously described and forms the basis of this report. METHODS A healthy, 32-year-old, female on oral contraceptives underwent an uneventful laparosco...