PEDIATRICS Vol. 31 No. 2 February 1963, pp. 297-302
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PORTAL HYPERTENSION—A COMPLICATION OF UMBILICAL VEIN CATHETERIZATION

Frank A. Oski M.D.1, Donald M. Allen M.D.1, and Louis K. Diamond M.D.1

1 The Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and the Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

The histories of four children with apparent extrahepatic portal vein obstruction and portal hypertension presumably secondary to umbilical vein catheterization are presented. Recommendations for the avoidance of this complication of exchange transfusion are made.

Submitted on May 2, 1962
Accepted on July 20, 1962




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