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Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Vol 5, 1186-1192, Copyright © 1994 by American Society of Nephrology

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Hepatic venous outflow obstruction in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

VE Torres, S Rastogi, BF King, AW Stanson, JB Gross Jr and DM Nogorney
Division of Nephrology and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905.

To discuss the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of hepatic venous outflow obstruction as a complication of polycystic liver disease, four cases diagnosed and treated at our institution have been reviewed and the information from six previously published case reports has been summarized. Eight of the 10 patients were women. All presented with severe ascites. Nine had polycystic kidneys. Three had moderate-to-advanced renal insufficiency, four were on hemodialysis, and one had a renal allograft. Possible predisposing factors were identified in seven patients; the most common was recent abdominal surgery, which, in three cases, was a bilateral nephrectomy. All patients had extrinsic compression of the hepatic veins and the inferior vena cava by hepatic cysts, and four had proven superimposed thrombosis of the inferior vena cava and/or hepatic veins. In the patients seen in this institution, magnetic resonance imaging was helpful in determining the level of obstruction in the inferior vena cava and the patency of the hepatic and portal veins. The outcome was worse in the patients with thrombosis; one recovered after a portocaval shunt, and the remaining three patients died. On the other hand, five of the six patients without thrombosis recovered after alcohol sclerosis of a large dominant cyst (one patient) or after hepatic resection and cyst fenestration (four patients). Hepatic venous outflow obstruction probably has been underrecognized as a cause of portal hypertension, ascites, and liver dysfunction in polycystic liver disease. The diagnosis can be reliably established with current imaging techniques, especially magnetic resonance imaging.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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