Medical Director/CEO SonoPath.com SPARTA, New Jersey, United States
Disclosure(s):
Eric C. Lindquist, DMV, DABVP (CFM): SonoPath.com: Advisor (Ongoing), I am CEO of SonoPath (Ongoing), I am owner of Sonopath (Ongoing), I lecture for SonoPath (Ongoing)
Presentation Description / Summary: 1) Hepatic vascular anatomy 2) Literature on shunt hunt parameters 3) Scanning technique: SDEP technique positions 9-14 as they apply to shunt hunting 4) The negative shunt hunt 5) Extrahepatic shunts: Gastrocaval, splenocaval, gastroazygos, splenoazygos 6) Intrahepatic shunts: left divisional, central divisional, right divisional 7) The rare shunts
Learning Objectives:
Understand vascular anatomy and learn the specific scanning technique to rule out shunts, and the value of the negative shunt
Understand the various types of intrahepatic and extrahepatic shunts, and rare shunts, and the value of integrating CT
After this presentation the participants should be able to readily image the necessary views to idenify normal and abnormal vascular anatomy related to common types of portosystemic shunting from the sonographic perspective.
