Successful treatment of ruptured duodenal varices with dual balloon-occluded embolotherapy

Duodenal varices are ectopic portosystemic shunts that do not tend to result in gastrointestinal bleeding. Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration is an established treatment for gastric varices. We report a 60-year-old man with melena due to ruptured duodenal varices originating at an...

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Autores principales: Ikeda, Osamu, Nakasone, Yutaka, Beppu, Toru, Baba, Hideo, Yamashita, Yasuyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3738340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23986831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/arsr.2012.120008
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Sumario:Duodenal varices are ectopic portosystemic shunts that do not tend to result in gastrointestinal bleeding. Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration is an established treatment for gastric varices. We report a 60-year-old man with melena due to ruptured duodenal varices originating at an inferior pancreaticoduodenal vein; drainage was into a gonadal vein. His ruptured duodenal varices were successfully treated by dual balloon-occluded embolotherapy.

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