| Literature DB >> 36238109 |
Se Jin Park, Young Hwan Kim, Ung Rae Kang, Seung Woo Ji.
Abstract
Duodenal varices can develop in patients with portal hypertension secondary to liver cirrhosis. Although upper gastrointestinal bleeding is often severe and fatal, the definite treatment or guideline has not been established. Although endoscopy is the primary therapeutic modality, the use of radiologic interventions, such as transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, balloon or vascular plug-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration, and percutaneous transhepatic variceal obliteration, can be considered alternative treatment methods for duodenal varices. Herein, we report a case of duodenal varix in a patient with poor hepatic functional reserve and vascular anatomy, which are contraindications for an occlusion balloon or a vascular plug, successfully treated with coil-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration. CopyrightsEntities:
Year: 2020 PMID: 36238109 PMCID: PMC9432092 DOI: 10.3348/jksr.2020.81.1.231
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Taehan Yongsang Uihakhoe Chi ISSN: 1738-2637
Fig. 1A 50-year-old woman with massive hematemesis.
A. Endoscopy shows active bleeding from the duodenal varix (arrow).
B. Axial contrast-enhanced computed tomography demonstrates a varix in the 3rd portion of the duodenum (white arrow) supplied by the inferior pancreaticoduodenal vein and draining into the right ovarian vein to form the mesocaval shunt (black arrow).
C. Coronal contrast-enhanced computed tomography shows the mesocaval shunt formed by the inferior pancreaticoduodenal (white arrow) and right ovarian (black arrow) veins.
D. Coil-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration was successfully performed using a double microcatheter technique. Detachable coils were deployed in the ovarian vein through a more proximally placed microcatheter (arrow).
E. Gelfoam mixed with a contrast agent was injected to embolize the duodenal varices (black arrow) and inferior pancreaticoduodenal vein (white arrow).
F. Axial contrast-enhanced computed tomography obtained 6 months after coil-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration shows complete obliteration of the duodenal varices (arrow).