Splenic vein thrombosis is a blockage in the splenic vein due to a blood clot. The splenic vein carries blood away from the spleen and parts of the stomach and pancreas. The spleen is an organ ...

Formerly the lienal vein, the splenic vein services the spleen. It drains deoxygenated blood away from the spleen to a junction with the superior mesenteric vein. As a result, the hepatic portal ...

(A) Compression. Pancreatic cysts compress the splenic vein, increasing venous flow in the gastric veins and forming varices. Other causes of compression include pancreatic NET, lymphoma ...

Diagnosis. Gastric variceal hemorrhage, severe portal hypertensive gastropathy, splenic vein thrombosis. Management. Blood transfusion, splenic artery embolization and balloon-occluded retrograde ...

ALTHOUGH thrombosis of the splenic vein is infrequently reported in the literature, 1,2 it is common knowledge among surgeons that this condition may follow splenectomy. In fact, local thrombosis ...

This condition arises due to increased pressure in the splenic vein (SV), causing blood to drain through the short gastric veins to the stomach, leading to the dilation of submucosal structures ...

The superior mesenteric vein and the splenic vein join and continue to the liver as the portal vein. Causes of Mesenteric Venous Thrombosis. Mesenteric venous thrombosis appears to be a ...

Of the specific vascular lesions observed, stenosis of the splenic vein was found in 22 patients, stenosis of the superior mesenteric-portal vein in 13 patients (Fig. 1) and thrombosis inside the ...

The presence of intraluminal echoes inside the splenic vein was consistent with the diagnosis of splenic vein thrombus (Figure 1; arrow). The presence of splenic vein thrombus and vascular ...