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01-02-2017 | UNM Clinical Case Conferences
A Remembrance of Procedures Past: Late Hepatic Artery Thrombosis
Authors:
Robert Andrews, Thomas Queen, Joseph Alcorn, Denis McCarthy
Published in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Issue 2/2017
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Excerpt
A 63-year-old man was evaluated in the emergency department of an outside hospital with complaints of sharp right upper quadrant abdominal pain that radiated to his back. The pain had progressed over the previous 3 days, accompanied by nausea but without fevers or chills. His past history included cirrhosis due to α-1 antitrypsin deficiency, for which he had undergone orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) in 1997, followed by chronic immunosuppression therapy with tacrolimus. He also had had diabetes, hypertension, and papillary thyroid carcinoma treated with thyroidectomy followed by administration of 131I, leading to a lymphoproliferative plasmacytoma of the tongue due to radiation. …
