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Transcolonic portal scintigraphy was used to evaluate immediate and long-term changes in shunt blood flow after partial ligation of single extrahepatic portosystemic shunts in 8 dogs. Scintigraphy was performed before surgery, within the first 7 days after surgery, and 3 to 9 months after surgery. Shunt fraction values for this group of dogs before surgery ranged from 67 to 87% (normal reference range,or = 15%). On the basis of postoperative scintigraphy, 4 dogs had immediate and lasting occlusion of shunt blood flow (shunt fraction,or = 15%). One dog had a shunt fraction value within the reference range immediately after surgery, had evidence of recurrent shunt blood flow (shunt fraction, 23%) at 3 months after surgery, and again had a shunt fraction value within the reference range 9 months after surgery. Persistent, though reduced, shunt blood flow (shunt fractions, 23 and 27%) was evident immediately after surgery in 2 dogs. One of these dogs had a shunt fraction within the reference range 3 months after surgery, whereas shunt blood flow in the other dog had increased to 41%. One dog had no appreciable change in shunt blood flow immediately after surgery (shunt fraction, 70%), but the shunt fraction value had decreased to 41% at the time of the final scintigraphic examination. As assessed by transcolonic portal scintigraphy, partial single extrahepatic portosystemic ligation caused a significant decrease in mean shunt blood flow in this group of 8 dogs and resulted in eventual shunt occlusion in a majority of the dogs (6 of 8 dogs).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) |
