Table 1.

Patient characteristics.

Cause of chronic liver disease	n = 16
Chronic viral hepatitis B	1
Chronic viral hepatitis C	8
Alcohol abuse	3
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease	1
Autoimmune hepatitis	2
Portal vein agenesis and chronic heart failure	1

Past history	n = 16
Related to the liver
Trans-arterial chemoembolisation	2
Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration	1
Percutaneous transhepatic obliteration	1
Unrelated to the liver
Left renal surgery for renal cell carcinoma	1
Surgical closure of a vesico-rectal fistula	1