Lipsich José, Rojas Luis, Alonso José, Teplisky Darío, Halac Alicia, Alvarez Fernando, Sierre Sergio
Department of Interventional Radiology, Hospital de Pediatría Prof JP Garrahan, Combate de los Pozos 1881 (1245), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
J Pediatr Urol. 2008 Jun;4(3):236-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jpurol.2007.09.002. Epub 2007 Nov 5.
We report a case of a 17-year-old patient with severe hematuria from an ileocystoplasty-augmented bladder for vesical exstrophy, with associated cirrhosis secondary to autoimmune hepatitis, diagnosed years later. Varix development and further bleeding from ectopic varices, related to cirrhosis and portal hypertension, are a rare cause of hematuria in patients with surgically augmented bladder volume. This child was successfully treated with a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt procedure as a bridge to hepatic transplantation.