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Spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in patients with liver cirrhosis

Bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis is primarily caused by gastroesophageal varix in association with extensive collateral circulation, portal hypertensive gastropathy, a Mallory-Weiss tear and peptic ulcer disease. The spontaneous rupture of an artery, as a result of coagulopathy, is extremel...

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Autores principales: Lee, Tae Hee, Park, Yong Sung, Chung, Dong Jin, Kim, Ji Hyung, Kim, Sun Moon, Im, Euyi Hyeog, Huh, Kyu Chan
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Publicado: The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2686960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18787369
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2008.23.3.152
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author Lee, Tae Hee
Park, Yong Sung
Chung, Dong Jin
Kim, Ji Hyung
Kim, Sun Moon
Im, Euyi Hyeog
Huh, Kyu Chan
author_facet Lee, Tae Hee
Park, Yong Sung
Chung, Dong Jin
Kim, Ji Hyung
Kim, Sun Moon
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Huh, Kyu Chan
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description Bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis is primarily caused by gastroesophageal varix in association with extensive collateral circulation, portal hypertensive gastropathy, a Mallory-Weiss tear and peptic ulcer disease. The spontaneous rupture of an artery, as a result of coagulopathy, is extremely rare in patients with liver cirrhosis; however, we recently observed a case of a spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in a 47 year-old male patient with alcoholic liver cirrhosis. The patient expired despite repeated transcatheter arterial embolization of the lateral thoracic artery and best supportive care. This is, to our knowledge, the first documented case of the spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in a patient with liver cirrhosis.
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spelling pubmed-26869602009-06-15 Spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in patients with liver cirrhosis Lee, Tae Hee Park, Yong Sung Chung, Dong Jin Kim, Ji Hyung Kim, Sun Moon Im, Euyi Hyeog Huh, Kyu Chan Korean J Intern Med Case Report Bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis is primarily caused by gastroesophageal varix in association with extensive collateral circulation, portal hypertensive gastropathy, a Mallory-Weiss tear and peptic ulcer disease. The spontaneous rupture of an artery, as a result of coagulopathy, is extremely rare in patients with liver cirrhosis; however, we recently observed a case of a spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in a 47 year-old male patient with alcoholic liver cirrhosis. The patient expired despite repeated transcatheter arterial embolization of the lateral thoracic artery and best supportive care. This is, to our knowledge, the first documented case of the spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in a patient with liver cirrhosis. The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2008-09 2008-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2686960/ /pubmed/18787369 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2008.23.3.152 Text en Copyright © 2008 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lee, Tae Hee
Park, Yong Sung
Chung, Dong Jin
Kim, Ji Hyung
Kim, Sun Moon
Im, Euyi Hyeog
Huh, Kyu Chan
Spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in patients with liver cirrhosis
title Spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in patients with liver cirrhosis
title_full Spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in patients with liver cirrhosis
title_fullStr Spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in patients with liver cirrhosis
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in patients with liver cirrhosis
title_short Spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in patients with liver cirrhosis
title_sort spontaneous rupture of the lateral thoracic artery in patients with liver cirrhosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2686960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18787369
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2008.23.3.152
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