Hepatic Portal Venous Gas and Anastomotic Leakage

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Ann Coloproctol. 2020;36(4):211-211

Publication date (electronic) : 2020 August 31

doi : https://doi.org/10.3393/ac.2019.06.13

, Gabriella Teresa Capolupo , Gianluca Mascianà , Marco Caricato

Colorectal Surgery Unit, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy

Correspondence to: Filippo Carannante, M.D. Department of Geriatric Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico, Via Alvaro del Portillo 21, 00128 Rome, Italy Tel: +39-06-22541-1428, Fax: +39-06-22541-1908 E-mail: f.carannante@unicampus.it

Received 2019 April 22; Accepted 2020 June 13.

To the editor:

We read with great interest the article titled, “Successful conservative management of hepatic portal venous gas due to anastomosis leakage after a sigmoidectomy,” written by Hong et al. [1]. The authors affirm that they “were unable to find any cases of hepatic portal venous gas (HPVG) associated with anastomotic leak after a colon resection.”

Last year, our group published a case report and literature review of HPVG [2]. In our case, “a computed tomography scan showed little perianastomotic collections with air-fluid levels and massive hepatic portal venous gas.” Furthermore, in our literature review, we reported a paper that presented a case of HPVG with anastomosis leakage [3]. Other papers we reported presented cases of HPVG due to surgical complications, while not specifying which types [4-7].

We write this letter to specify that the HPVG condition could be associated with anastomotic leakage and the management of this surgical complication should also solve the portal venous gas problem.

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2. Capolupo GT, Mascianà G, Carannante F, Caricato M. Hepatic portal venous gas after colonoscopy: a case report and review. Int J Surg Case Rep 2018;51:54–7.

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