Successful treatment of mesenteric varices by retrograde transvenous obliteration by the delivery of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate via an abdominal wall vein.

Abstract

Bleeding from mesenteric varices associated with portal hypertension is occasionally life-threatening. A 53-year-old man who had undergone esophageal transection for esophageal varices and balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for gastric varices presented with melena due to ruptured mesenteric varices. He was treated by injecting N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate via an abdominal wall vein to obtain retrograde transvenous obliteration.

• Authors: Osamu Ikeda, Yutaka Nakasone, Koichi Yokoyama, Seijiro Inoue, Hiroshi Takamori, Hideo Baba, Yasuyuki Yamashita
• Journal: Cardiovascular and interventional radiology (Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol) Vol. 37 Issue 2 Pg. 533-6 (Apr 2014) ISSN: 1432-086X [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 23716126 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Contrast Media
• Enbucrilate

Topics

• Abdominal Wall (blood supply)
• Angiography (methods)
• Carcinoma, Hepatocellular (complications, pathology, surgery)
• Contrast Media
• Embolization, Therapeutic (methods)
• Enbucrilate (administration & dosage)
• Follow-Up Studies
• Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage (diagnostic imaging, etiology, therapy)
• Humans
• Liver Neoplasms (complications, pathology, surgery)
• Male
• Melena (diagnosis, etiology)
• Mesentery (blood supply)
• Middle Aged
• Radiographic Image Enhancement
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed (methods)
• Treatment Outcome
• Varicose Veins (diagnostic imaging, etiology, therapy)