Improvement of protein-losing enteropathy by coil embolization of the left azygos vein.

Abstract

We report a 17-year-old boy with double-outlet right ventricle, atrioventricular septal defect, pulmonary stenosis, and persistent left superior vena cava who developed a protein-losing enteropathy, which was cured by coil embolization of the left azygos vein, thereby interrupting the vein-to-vein shunt.

• Authors: Akira Ishii, Shigeto Fuse, Noriaki Kubo, Kinya Hatakeyama, Motoki Takamuro, Hideshi Tomita, Hiroyuki Tsutsumi
• Journal: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (Catheter Cardiovasc Interv) Vol. 59 Issue 3 Pg. 399-401 (Jul 2003) ISSN: 1522-1946 [Print] United States
• PMID: 12822170 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
• Copyright: Copyright 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Topics

• Abnormalities, Multiple (diagnosis, surgery)
• Adolescent
• Azygos Vein (diagnostic imaging, pathology)
• Double Outlet Right Ventricle (diagnosis, surgery)
• Embolization, Therapeutic (methods)
• Follow-Up Studies
• Fontan Procedure (adverse effects, methods)
• Heart Defects, Congenital (diagnosis, surgery)
• Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular (diagnosis, surgery)
• Humans
• Ligation
• Male
• Protein-Losing Enteropathies (etiology, therapy)
• Pulmonary Valve Stenosis (complications, diagnosis, surgery)
• Radionuclide Imaging
• Risk Assessment
• Treatment Outcome
• Vena Cava, Superior (abnormalities)