Effective transvenous obliteration for portosystemic encephalopathy in a patient with liver cirrhosis and traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage

A 62-year-old woman with a history of alcoholic liver cirrhosis presented to our hospital with drowsiness and confusion. Two months earlier, she experienced a traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage with a hemorrhagic contusion of the right temporal lobe after falling down the staircase (Fig. 1A). Thereafter, she discontinued drinking alcohol. During the current consultation, brain computed tomography revealed resolution of the subarachnoid hemorrhage...