A 71-year-old man is evaluated post-operatively following a portosystemic shunt for esophageal varices on a background of alcoholic cirrhosis. A surgical anastamosis of which of the following veins is most likely to have mitigated the patient’s symptomatology?
A) Inferior mesenteric and superior mesenteric
B) Inferior mesenteric and splenic
C) Superior mesenteric and portal
D) Superior mesenteric and splenic
E) Splenic and left renal
