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Michael Johnson1, Michael S Kent2, Khalid Khwaja3
1Division of Interventional Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
We report a life-threatening subcapsular hepatic hemorrhage after VATS, successfully treated with Gelfoam embolization of the right hepatic artery. The postprocedure course was complicated by infarction of the right hepatic lobe.
We report a life-threatening subcapsular hepatic hemorrhage after VATS, successfully treated with Gelfoam embolization of the right hepatic artery. The postprocedure course was complicated by infarction of the right hepatic lobe.

