Infected Extrahepatic Splanchnic Venous Stent(-Grafts): Clinical Presentation, Imaging, and Treatment in Three Patients

摘要

This brief report describes 3 patients with infected extrahepatic splanchnic venous stunts or stunt grafts. These devices had been placed to treat prehepatic portal hypertension 4 wk. 3 mo, and 31 mo. respectively. before readmission for fever. Blood cultures and fluorine-18 fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/CT were positive in all. With systemic antibiotic treatment. 2 patients showed a clinical recovery. In the third patient. antibiotic treatment failed. Therefore. the infected stem graft was surgically removed and a splenorenal shunt was created. No recurrent splanchnic venous infection was observed in these 3 patients.