Rex shunt refers to a surgery where the extra-hepatic portal blood is drained into the left branch of intra-hepatic portal vein in Rex recessus by bypassing or transposing a grafted vein, through which a hepatopetal portal blood is reconstructed.

The jugular vein in the neck is used to create a bypass shunt around the clotted area of the portal vein. This re-establishes the normal blood flow to the liver. The operation usually lasts about five to six hours, but can sometimes take longer. On rare occasions, a Rex shunt is not possible.

The surgical procedure utlilizes a Rex shunt, also known as a meso-portal shunt, to restore normal blood flow back to the liver in patients who have blockage of the portal vein outside of the liver. This blockage causes high blood pressure in the …

The Rex Shunt procedure is a relatively new treatment procedure for portal hypertension that has been performed on children with positive results. According to what I have learned, there are now over 90+ children in North America who have had the operation.

The Rex Shunt. Use of the restorative shunt, the meso-rex bypass — or “rex shunt” for short — at our hospital began in 1997, and since then, more than 85 children have been operated on here; they have come from 20 states and five countries. The …

Meso-Rex shunt (MRS) is a surgical procedure that restores physiological portal venous blood flow to the liver by using a graft to connect the superior mesenteric vein and the left portal vein within the Rex recess, and can relieve variceal bleeding …

Nov 23, 2012 · The aim of the Rex shunt is to restore physiologic, hepatopetal flow by bridging blood through an autologous graft extending from the superior mesenteric vein (SMV) into the Rex recess of the left portal vein, thereby bypassing the extrahepatic portal venous obstruction.

Feb 21, 2022 · Rex shunt, which was first put in use in 1992, has been considered as an ideal surgical method for the treatment of extra-hepatic portal venous obstruction (EHPVO) due to its reconstruction of the hepatopetal portal blood flow.

Jan 1, 2006 · Children with portal venous thrombosis often have severe symptoms secondary to portal hypertension including recurrent upper gastrointestinal (UGI) bleeds and hypersplenism. We report results of the use of the mesenterico–left …

The surgical procedure utlilizes a Rex shunt, also known as a meso-portal shunt, to restore normal blood flow back to the liver in patients who have blockage of the portal vein outside of the liver. This blockage causes high blood pressure in the …