Successful treatment of ruptured duodenal varices with dual balloon-occluded embolotherapy
oleh: Osamu Ikeda, Yutaka Nakasone, Toru Beppu, Hideo Baba, Yasuyuki Yamashita
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| Diterbitkan: | SAGE Publishing 2012-03-01 |
Deskripsi
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.