Atsushi Jogo, Akira Yamamoto, Ken Kageyama, Fumi Sasaki, Tatsushi Oura, Yasuhito Mitsuyama, Eisaku Terayama, Kazuki Matsushita, Kazuo Asano, Yuki Sakai, Masanori Ozaki, Shohei Harada, Kazuki Murai, Mariko Nakano, Etsuji Sohgawa, Ryuichi Kita, Toshio Kaminou, Yukio Miki
The standard treatment for ruptured duodenal varices remains to be established. Emergency balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration is challenging in patients with bleeding because re-rupture of varices can occur due to increased pressure when using the retrograde approach. Herein, we describe a case in which a catheter was retrogradely advanced to the afferent vein beyond bleeding duodenal varices; however, the varices re-ruptured during coil embolization, and a part of the catheter was deviated into the intestinal tract...
December 2023: Radiology Case Reports