Surgical Correction of Two Congenital Extrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts through the Left Gastric Vein and the Left Colic Vein in a Dog

Abstract

The dog was a 1-year-old male Miniature Schnauzers and was brought to our clinic because of the dysuria, and portal pressure measurement and mesenteric portography were carried out. Two portosystemic shunts connected with the caudal vena cava passing through the left gastric vein and the left colic vein were confirmed as a result of mesenteric portography. About ten vertebral bodies were existed between both shunts. In the surgery treatment, portal pressure was finally 14 mmHg by a complete ligature of shunts. This case is rare type of congenital extrahepatic portosystemic shunt.