Balloon embolization of a bleeding gastroduodenal artery in a 1-year-old child.
Severe stress can produce ulceration and uncontrollable hemorrhage in the pediatric age group. Modern angiographic techniques, using embolization of a Silastic balloon to occlude a visualized bleeding vessel, can successfully control hemorrhage and avoid surgical intervention and its resultant disordered gastric physiology. Recently this technique was used to control hemorrhage from the gastroduodenal artery in a 1-year-old child with severe respiratory sepsis. This is the youngest reported child in whom the technique has been used to control bleeding from this vessel.
D000783:Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D000792:Angiography; D001158:Arteries; D004064:Digestive System / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004386:Duodenum / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal; D012826:Silicone Elastomers / Q000627:therapeutic use
D012826:Silicone Elastomers