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Infarction and laceration of liver parenchyma caused by wedged CO(2) venography before tips insertion
I Theuerkauf1, H Strunk, K A Brensing
1Department of Pathology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, D-53127 Bonn, Germany. ingo-theuerkauf@gmx.de
Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
|February 15, 2001
Abstract:
We describe the fatal outcome of an elective TIPS procedure performed in a 43-year-old man with alcoholic cirrhosis. Wedged hepatic venography with CO(2) was the reason for infarction and laceration of liver parenchyma resulting in a subcapsular hematoma and subsequent intra-abdominal bleeding. This is the first report of this complication after the use of CO(2) in a cirrhotic patient.