Familial Occurrence of a Congenital Portosystemic Shunt of the Portal Vein

Goto Kumiko

Tsuji Keiji

Honda Yohji

Takaki Shintaro

Mori Nami

Kakizawa Hideaki

Kurihara Sho

Hiyama Eiso

Furukawa Yoshinari

Chayama Kazuaki

Hiroshima Journal of Medical Sciences

[PISSN] 0018-2052

[EISSN] 2433-7668

[NCID] AA00664312

A congenital portosystemic shunt of the portal vein is a very rare vascular anomaly associated with the liver. We report the case of a 5-year-old girl with a patent ductus venosus and her 31-year-old mother with a congenital portosystemic shunt. The child presented with a history of an extremely low birth weight in addition to an atrial septal defect and a patent ductus venosus. At the age of 2, she underwent ligation of the ductus venosus. Her mother was also diagnosed with a congenital vascular anomaly at the age of 16. We have followed up and evaluated her asymptomatic mother for 15 years. To our knowledge, this is the first report describing the occurrence of a congenital portosystemic shunt in both a mother and her child.

Congenital portosystemic shunts of the portal vein

Abernethy malformation

patent ductus venosus

Medical sciences [ 490 ]

eng

Hiroshima University Medical Press

Copyright (c) 2017 Hiroshima University Medical Press

[ISSN] 0018-2052

[ISSN] 2433-7668

[NCID] AA00664312

[DOI] 10.24811/hjms.66.3_85

[DOI] https://doi.org/10.24811/hjms.66.3_85