Emergency combined angiographic and endoscopic Neodymium-YAG laser treatment of a complicated case of massive upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
Emergency combined angiographic and endoscopic Neodymium-YAG laser treatment is described in an elderly patient with massive hemorrhage from the afferent limb stump of a Billroth II anastomosis after surgical resection of a gastric carcinoma. In patients with bleeding lesions, who are not operative candidates, such an approach can be life-saving.
D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D004386:Duodenum / Q000098:blood supply; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D020699:Gastroscopes; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D007834:Lasers / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008638:Mesenteric Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery