title: [Hemostatic effect of local intramural injection of dehydrated ethanol in the canine gastrointestinal tract].
abstract: The relative value of a subserosal injection of 98% ethanol (0.2 ml x 4) in controlling acute and chronic bleeding from serosal vessels was assessed in dogs. Blood flow was measured from gastric serosal vessels (average diameter 1.6 mm) severed immediately after, 24 hours after, and 48 hours after ethanol injection. Blood flow from severed colonic serosal vessels (averaging diameter 1.0 mm) was measured prior to and immediately after ethanol injection. The safety of ethanol injection was tested by endoscopically guided submucosal injection which were sequentially observed endoscopy at one hour, 24 hours, and weekly for weeks after injection. Ethanol injection had no effect on bleeding from larger gastric vessels unless the injection was made 24 or 48 hours prior to vessel severence. Ethanol injection was effective in reducing bleeding from the smaller colonic vessels when done immediately prior to vessel severence. Gastric submucosal injections led to ulcers which extended into the muscle layer at on week and healed completely by three weeks; none perforated or bleed. These data support the potential efficacy of therapeutic ethanol injection for the control of small vessel (1.0 mm diameter) bleeding and the potential prophylactic value against rebleeding from larger vessels. Further studies are needed to determine if these findings are organ related as opposed to being diameter specific.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sugawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Masuyama
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Lucas
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D000431:Ethanol / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000098:blood supply; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006489:Hemostatic Techniques; D007267:Injections
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol