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Published on: November 4, 2021
Coil migration after transarterial coil embolization of a splenic artery pseudoaneurysm
Bezawit D Tekola1, David M Arner1, Brian W Behm1
1Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., USA.
Abstract:
A 48-year-old man with a history of splenic artery pseudoaneurysm requiring transarterial embolization 3 months earlier presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain and fever. Computed tomography showed evidence of embolization coil fragments within the gastrointestinal tract. Upper endoscopy showed a large gastric ulcer with numerous embolization coils extruding into the gastric lumen. The patient underwent partial gastrectomy, distal pancreatectomy and resection of the splenic artery pseudoaneurysm. This case illustrates a rare delayed complication of transarterial embolization of a splenic artery pseudoaneurysm.

