Utility of stent-grafts in treatment of porto-biliary fistula.

Abstract

A porto-biliary fistula causing hemobilia is a known complication of percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD). We present two patients with hemobilia secondary to porto-biliary fistula, treated successfully by percutaneous placement of stent-grafts. In one case, the stent-graft was placed in the bile duct, and in the other case, it was placed in the intrahepatic portal vein branch. Hemobilia stopped and there were no complications except a small area of hepatic infarction, distal to the stent-graft in the portal vein.

• Authors: Bora Peynircioglu, Wojciech Cwikiel
• Journal: Cardiovascular and interventional radiology (Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol) 2006 Nov-Dec Vol. 29 Issue 6 Pg. 1156-9 ISSN: 0174-1551 [Print] United States
• PMID: 16897266 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Arterial Occlusive Diseases (therapy)
• Bile Duct Neoplasms (complications, therapy)
• Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic (pathology, surgery)
• Biliary Fistula (etiology, therapy)
• Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation (instrumentation)
• Catheterization (instrumentation)
• Cholangiocarcinoma (complications, therapy)
• Cholangiography
• Cholestasis, Intrahepatic (etiology, therapy)
• Drainage (adverse effects)
• Hemobilia (therapy)
• Hepatic Artery (pathology)
• Humans
• Liver Cirrhosis (therapy)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Portal Vein (pathology, surgery)
• Stents