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Kensuke Osaragi1, Tomohiro Matsumoto1, Rika Yoshimatsu1
1Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Kochi University, Kochi Medical School Kohasu, Japan.
Abstract:
We report a case of successful treatment of stomal variceal bleeding with percutaneous transhepatic obliteration using a microballoon catheter concomitantly with drainage vein compression. A 72-year-old man with alcoholic cirrhosis was admitted to our hospital due to repeated hemorrhage of stomal varices. Percutaneous transhepatic obliteration was then selected for treatment because computed tomography revealed the stomal varices being fed by only two branches of the superior and inferior mesenteric veins. During microballoon inflation, 5% ethanolamine oleate with iopamidol was injected into each branch, and the systemic drainage veins were compressed by the gauze from the body surface near the stoma. No rebleeding from the stomal varices has been observed 14 months after the procedure.
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