INTRODUCTION: Spontaneous intrahepatic portosystemic shunts are rare vascular anomalies that consist of a communication between the portal system and the systemic venous circulation. We report a case of a porto-caval shunt associated with chronic pericarditis.CASE REPORT: A 47-year-old patient with post pericarditis cirrhosis and without encephalopathy and hypoglycaemia. The shunt was tubular in its initial segment and aneurismal just before joining the vena cava.DISCUSSION: Spontaneous intrahepatic portosystemic shunt is a rare anomaly. Diagnosis can be made by Doppler ultrasound and helical CT.
Aneurysm Humans