Objective To investigate the spiral CT manifestations of the collateral circulation pathways resulting from splenic vein occlusion (SVO) duo to pancreatic diseases. Methods The CT imaging and clinical data of 33 cases of pancreatic disease with SVO, including 28 cases of pancreatic carcinoma, 3 cases of acute pancreatitis and 2 cases of chronic pancreatitis, were retrospectively analyzed.Results Tortuous and dilated vessels were observed in the areas between splenic hilum and gastric fundus and/or along the gastric greater curvature in all 33 cases. In isolated SVO cases, the short gastric vein (SGV, 86%)，coronary vein (CV, 79%)，gastroepiploic vein (GEV, 79%) and gastrocolic trunk (GCT, 57%) were varicose and dilated. While in nonisolated SVO，other collateral veins such as the right superior colic vein (RSCV, 37%），middle colic vein (MCV, 37%） and posterior superior pancreaticoduodenal vein (PSPDV, 21%） were seen as well. Conclusion The two predominant collateral pathways of SVO are ①SGV→gastric fundal veins→CV， and ②GEV→GCT→SMV. They have characteristic imaging features on spiral CT and are of clinical significance in both preoperative staging of pancreatic carcinoma and the evaluation of pancreatogenic segmental portal hypertension.
目的 分析门静脉系统三维解剖结构及其与左侧结直肠癌肝转移灶分布的关系。方法 选取2009年11月至2012年9月期间笔者所在医院行上腹部CT检查的181 例患者作为研究对象，观察其CT影像学资料并重建门静脉系统三维图像，进行门静脉系统解剖结构分型，并分析其中61例左侧结直肠癌伴肝转移患者的CT或MR二维图像及其临床资料，记录肿瘤原发部位，观察肝转移病灶的位置、数目以及门静脉系统的解剖类型。结果 肠系膜上静脉（SMV）和脾静脉（SV）汇合成门静脉主干（MPV），在肝门处分为门静脉右支（RPV）和门静脉左支（LPV） 进入肝脏（A型）者占83.98% （152/181），其中肠系膜下静脉（IMV）汇入SMV （A1亚型） 65例 （35.91%），IMV汇入SV （A2亚型）64例（35.36%），IMV汇入门静脉角（A3亚型） 23例（12.71%）；其他变异（B、C和D型）者29例，占16.02%。61例左侧结直肠癌伴肝转移患者中，IMV汇入门静脉角者12例，其肝转移灶均分布在肝左右叶（100%）；而IMV汇入SMV或SV者49例，其肝转移灶分布在肝左右叶者30例（61.22%），分布在肝左或右叶者19例（38.78%），两种IMV汇入门静脉类型其肝转移灶分布构成比的差异有统计学意义（P＜0.05）。在39例IMV汇入SV的患者中，肝内门静脉为2支型（A2亚型）者28例，其肝转移灶分布在肝左右叶者21例（75.00%），分布在肝左或右叶者7例（25.00%）；而肝内门静脉为3支型（B2＋C2亚型）的11例中，肝转移灶分布在肝左右叶者3例（27.27%），分布在肝左或右叶者8例（72.73%），两者的肝转移灶分布构成比的差异也有统计学意义（P＜0.01）。结论 门静脉系统的解剖结构复杂多变，与左侧结直肠癌肝转移病灶的分布密切相关。
【Abstract】ObjectiveTo explore the appropriate surgical management of the primary hepatocellular carcinoma with hypersplenism. MethodsOf 67 patients who has primary hepatocellular carcinoma with hypersplenism, 17 cases had hepatectomy combined with splenectomy, 7 cases had hepatectomy only, and the other 43 patients were treated with hepatic artery embolization and splenic artery embolization. ResultsThe symptoms of hypersplenism disappeared and the hemogram became normal 30 d after operation in 17 patients who had hepatectomy combined with splenectomy, but worsened in 7 patients who only had simple hepatectomy and 6 cases of those patients were treated with splenic artery embolization 3-7 months after operation. In 43 patients treated with hepatic artery embolization and splenic artery embolization, 79%（34/43）had improved hypersplenism symptoms and the hemogram became normal. ConclusionThe treatment of primary hepatocellular carcinoma with hypersplenism should be strived for hepatectomy combined with splenectomy. If the liver mass cannot be resected, hepatic artery embolization and splenic artery embolization should be chosen.
【Abstract】ObjectiveTo compare the hemodynamic changes during operation of portal venous intubation or splenic venous intubation in extracorporeal venous bypass of swine orthotopic liver transplantation.MethodsThirty couples of healthy Duloke pigs were selected to perform orthotopic liver transplantation. According to the difference of cannula vessel of portal venous system during extracorporeal venous bypass, these pigs were divided into two groups: portal venous intubation group (n=15) and splenic venous intubation group (n=15). Hemodynamic changes were monitored continuously.ResultsTwo recipients died in portal venous intubation group, one died of unsmooth bypass in the operation, the other died of DIC. In splenic venous intubation group there was only one recipient death, who died of hemorrhagic shock. The time of anhepatic phase of splenic venous intubation group was (44.5±7.6) min, it was significantly shorter than portal venous intubation group(51.5±8.7) min(P＜0.05). Hemodynamic changes in phase Ⅲ and phase Ⅳ of portal venous intubation group were significantly different with that of splenic venous intubation group(P＜0.05). ConclusionApplication of bypass through splenic venous intubation during extracorporeal venous bypass of swine orthotopic liver transplantation can shorten the time of anhepatic phase, keep the hemodymamics relative stable in operation, and reduce the occurrence of postoperative correlative complication. It is an effective venovenous bypass pathway.
目的探讨脾静脉高压的临床特征及诊断依据。方法 回顾性分析6例脾静脉高压病例的临床症状、体征、影像学检查及术中发现等资料。结果 临床症状主要表现为呕血和便血； CT扫描3例脾静脉狭窄，3例脾静脉显示不清； 术中测定门静脉压力，切脾前左侧为2.94±0.2 kPa(35.0±2.1 cmH2O)，高于右侧的1.96±0.2 kPa(20.0±2.3 cmH2O)，切脾后左侧为2.06±0.1 kPa(21.0±1.3 cmH2O)，右侧为1.76±0.1 kPa(18.0±1.4 cmH2O)，二者无明显差异。术中探查脾静脉，5例脾静脉栓塞，1例狭窄。结论 术前CT增强扫描，术中测定左右半门静脉压力以及术中发现脾静脉栓塞或狭窄，可以诊断脾静脉高压。
ObjectiveTo investigate the ultrasonic changes of hepatic veins and splenic veins during various immune stages with different CD4+T lymphocyte count. MethodsFifty AIDS/HIV patients with chronic viral hepatitis treated between January 2010 and October 2013 were designated as the case group, and another 50 patients with simple chronic viral hepatitis were regarded as the controls. For patients in the case group, we observed their ultrasonic changes of hepatic and splenic veins during various immune stages with different CD4+T lymphocyte count. The results of observation and clinical laboratory analysis were compared. ResultsAbnormal ultrasonic changes were detected in the liver in various immune stages based on the CD4+T lymphocyte count, and the main manifestations of these changes included unclear portal and splenic vein distal direction, wide diameter, slowed blood flow velocity, and disappearance of fluctuations of blood flow spectrum; and unclear hepatic vein distal direction, low and three-phase, and negative blood flow spectrum with the disappearance of windows were also detected. There were no statistical differences between the case group and the control group when the CD4+T cell count was over 300/mm3, and a few indexes were significantly different when the CD4+T cell count was between 100 and 200/mm3. However, the differences of almost all indexes were significant when the CD4+T cell count was below 100/mm3. ConclusionPatients with HIV/AIDS combined with chronic viral hepatitis have ultrasonographic abnormalities of intrahepatic and splenic veins, which is more obvious as the CD4+T cell count declines. Overall consideration of intrahepatic vein and splenic vein ultrasonic indicators helps clinical assessment of disease development in patients with HIV/AIDS combined with chronic viral hepatitis.
ObjectiveTo evaluate the clinical value of color Doppler ultrasound in diagnosing prehepatic portal hypertension. MethodsA retrospective analysis was performed to analyze the results of color Doppler ultrasonography in 9 patients with prehepatic portal hypertension diagnosed between June 2012 and January 2015, including vessel diameter, shape, nature and direction of blood flow, and fistula blood flow spectrum. ResultsAmong the 9 patients, the color Doppler ultrasound found 3 patients with regional portal widened, increased and faster blood flow with the emergence of low-impedance spectrum artery, splenic vein widened with returning blocked and flocculent substance within the splenic vein lumen, irregular or streak-shaped low weak echo during splenic vein reduction, and unstable or weakened blood flow velocity. Two patients were confirmed with splenic vein thrombosis by ultrasound and other imaging methods with significantly reduced blood in splenic vein. For the other four patients with regional portal hypertension, obvious abnormalities in portal system were not detected by color Doppler ultrasound, but they were checked with other methods. The ultrasound positive diagnosis of the 9 patients was 5, with 4 missed. ConclusionThe color Doppler ultrasound has some values in screening, diagnosis and follow-up of prehepatic portal hypertension, but it can also be influenced by many factors with a high missed diagnosis rate. Carefully observing the portal system lumen structure, internal echo and blood flow combined with other imaging studies, and emphasizing clinical history of the patients can further improve diagnostic accuracy.
This paper aims to analyze the impact of splenic vein thrombosis (SVT) on the hemodynamic parameters in hepatic portal vein system. Based on computed tomography (CT) images of a patient with portal hypertension and commercial software MIMICS, the patient's portal venous system model was reconstructed. Color Doppler ultrasound method was used to measure the blood flow velocity in portal vein system and then the blood flow velocities were used as the inlet boundary conditions of simulation. By using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method, we simulated the changes of hemodynamic parameters in portal venous system with and without splenic vein thrombosis and analyzed the influence of physiological processes. The simulation results reproduced the blood flow process in portal venous system and the results showed that the splenic vein thrombosis caused serious impacts on hemodynamics. When blood flowed through the thrombosis, blood pressure reduced, flow velocity and wall shear stress increased. Flow resistance increased, blood flow velocity slowed down, the pressure gradient and wall shear stress distribution were more uniform in portal vein. The blood supply to liver decreased. Splenic vein thrombosis led to the possibility of forming new thrombosis in portal vein and surroundings.
ObjectiveTo observe the ultrastructural changes of vasa vasorum endothelial cells in the walls of the great saphenous vein and splenic vein, and to evaluate the effect of high hydrostatic pressure and hypoxia upon vasa vasorum endothelial cells. MethodsThirty-four varicose great saphenous vein samples and splenic vein samples with portal hypertension were obtained, and the same number of normal great saphenous vein and splenic vein were used as the control groups. Semi-thin sections stained with HE staining vasa vasorum of the adventitia in great saphenous vein and splenic vein were observed for light microscopy. Samples were made into ultrathin-slices again. The ultrastructural changes of endothelial cells were observed under transmission electron microscopy. ResultsIn varicose great saphenous veins and diseased splenic veins, the nuclear architecture of endothelial cells in vasa vasorum were integrity and the distribution of chromatin were normal. In some mitochondria, the trachychromatic groundplasm, undefined and ruptured cristae were found. ConclusionUnder high hydrostatic pressure and hypoxia conditions, the ultrastructure of vasa vasorum endothelial cells between the great saphenous vein and the splenic vein may appear remodeling phenomenon, and both changes are similar.