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

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2014 Apr;37(2):533-6. doi: 10.1007/s00270-013-0647-6. Epub 2013 May 29.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

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

Substances

  • Contrast Media
  • Enbucrilate