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Iatrogenic femoral pseudoaneurysms: thrombin injection after failed US-guided compression
D P Brophy1, R G Sheiman, P Amatulle
1Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA. dbrophy@caregroup.harvard.edu
Radiology
|January 22, 2000
Abstract:
Fifteen iatrogenic femoral pseudoaneurysms failed ultrasonography (US)-guided compression treatments. Despite concomitant antiplatelet or anticoagulation treatment, the 15 pseudoaneurysms were successfully and definitively treated without complication with US-guided thrombin injection. Results in this preliminary study suggest US-guided thrombin injection is a safe, expeditious, low-cost, and comfortable definitive treatment for femoral pseudoaneurysms that has advantages over both US-guided compression and open surgical repair.