title: Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO), a promising nonsurgical therapy for ectopic varices: a case report of successful treatment of duodenal varices by BRTO.
abstract: We present a patient with massive tarry stool, diagnosed as duodenal varices bleeding. Endoscopic ligation (EL) therapy was carried out for the varices, but because the possibility of re-bleeding remained, we treated the varices with balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO), and duodenal varices were successfully decompressed without any complications. BRTO might be a novel therapeutic approach for ectopic varices, including duodenal varices.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Kitasato University, Japan.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Haruta
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Isobe
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ueno
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Toda
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mitsunaga
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Noguchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamauchi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hayashi
mesh_terms: D002404:Catheterization; D004386:Duodenum / Q000098:blood supply*; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008026:Ligation; D008875:Middle Aged; D010690:Phlebography; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011172:Portography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*