Hepatic capsular avulsion after video-assisted thoracic biopsy of the lung

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.