Successful Treatment of Mesenteric Varices by Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration by the Delivery of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate via an Abdominal Wall Vein

Bleeding from mesenteric varices associated with portal hypertension is occasionally life-threatening. A 53-year-old man who had undergone esophageal transection for esophageal varices and balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for gastric varices presented with melena due to ruptured...

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Published in:Cardiovascular and interventional radiology 2014-04, Vol.37 (2), p.533-536
Main Authors: Ikeda, Osamu, Nakasone, Yutaka, Yokoyama, Koichi, Inoue, Seijiro, Takamori, Hiroshi, Baba, Hideo, Yamashita, Yasuyuki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abdominal Wall - blood supply
Angiography - methods
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular - complications
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular - pathology
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular - surgery
Cardiology
Case Report
Contrast Media
Embolization, Therapeutic - methods
Enbucrilate - administration & dosage
Follow-Up Studies
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage - diagnostic imaging
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage - etiology
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage - therapy
Humans
Imaging
Liver Neoplasms - complications
Liver Neoplasms - pathology
Liver Neoplasms - surgery
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Melena - diagnosis
Melena - etiology
Mesentery - blood supply
Middle Aged
Nuclear Medicine
Radiographic Image Enhancement
Radiology
Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods
Treatment Outcome
Ultrasound
Varicose Veins - diagnostic imaging
Varicose Veins - etiology
Varicose Veins - therapy
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Summary:Bleeding from mesenteric varices associated with portal hypertension is occasionally life-threatening. A 53-year-old man who had undergone esophageal transection for esophageal varices and balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for gastric varices presented with melena due to ruptured mesenteric varices. He was treated by injecting N -butyl-2-cyanoacrylate via an abdominal wall vein to obtain retrograde transvenous obliteration.
ISSN:0174-1551
1432-086X
DOI:10.1007/s00270-013-0647-6