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Splenic artery embolization in a woman with bleeding gastric varices and splenic vein thrombosis: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Gastric variceal bleeding due to splenic vein thrombosis is a life-threatening situation and is often difficult to manage by endoscopy. In the worst cases, an emergency splenectomy may be required to stop variceal bleeding. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 60-year-old Caucasi...

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Autores principales: Saugel, Bernd, Gaa, Jochen, Phillip, Veit, Schmid, Roland M, Huber, Wolfgang
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2923172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20684784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-247
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author Saugel, Bernd
Gaa, Jochen
Phillip, Veit
Schmid, Roland M
Huber, Wolfgang
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description INTRODUCTION: Gastric variceal bleeding due to splenic vein thrombosis is a life-threatening situation and is often difficult to manage by endoscopy. In the worst cases, an emergency splenectomy may be required to stop variceal bleeding. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 60-year-old Caucasian woman with bleeding gastric varices secondary to splenic vein thrombosis treated by splenic artery embolization. Successful embolization was performed by depositing coils into the splenic artery resulting in cessation of variceal bleeding. After embolization there was no recurrence of bleeding. CONCLUSION: Splenic artery embolization can be an effective and definite treatment for variceal bleeding secondary to splenic vein thrombosis.
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spelling pubmed-29231722010-08-18 Splenic artery embolization in a woman with bleeding gastric varices and splenic vein thrombosis: a case report Saugel, Bernd Gaa, Jochen Phillip, Veit Schmid, Roland M Huber, Wolfgang J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Gastric variceal bleeding due to splenic vein thrombosis is a life-threatening situation and is often difficult to manage by endoscopy. In the worst cases, an emergency splenectomy may be required to stop variceal bleeding. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 60-year-old Caucasian woman with bleeding gastric varices secondary to splenic vein thrombosis treated by splenic artery embolization. Successful embolization was performed by depositing coils into the splenic artery resulting in cessation of variceal bleeding. After embolization there was no recurrence of bleeding. CONCLUSION: Splenic artery embolization can be an effective and definite treatment for variceal bleeding secondary to splenic vein thrombosis. BioMed Central 2010-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2923172/ /pubmed/20684784 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-247 Text en Copyright ©2010 Saugel et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Phillip, Veit
Schmid, Roland M
Huber, Wolfgang
Splenic artery embolization in a woman with bleeding gastric varices and splenic vein thrombosis: a case report
title Splenic artery embolization in a woman with bleeding gastric varices and splenic vein thrombosis: a case report
title_full Splenic artery embolization in a woman with bleeding gastric varices and splenic vein thrombosis: a case report
title_fullStr Splenic artery embolization in a woman with bleeding gastric varices and splenic vein thrombosis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Splenic artery embolization in a woman with bleeding gastric varices and splenic vein thrombosis: a case report
title_short Splenic artery embolization in a woman with bleeding gastric varices and splenic vein thrombosis: a case report
title_sort splenic artery embolization in a woman with bleeding gastric varices and splenic vein thrombosis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2923172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20684784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-247
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