title: Successful treatment of mesenteric varices after living donor liver transplantation with retrograde transvenous obliteration via an abdominal wall vein.
abstract: Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration is an established treatment for gastric varices; it has been used more rarely to treat mesenteric varices. We report a 12-year-old girl who had received a living donor liver transplant and suffered melena due to ruptured mesenteric varices. We addressed treatment of the mesenteric varices by retrograde transvenous obliteration of an abdominal wall collateral vein detected by superior mesenteric arteriography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto 860-8505, Japan. osamu-3643ik@do9.enjoy.ne.jp
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Yoshitaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakasone
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Hideaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okajima
authors.forename: Katsuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Asonuma
authors.forename: Yukihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Inomata
mesh_terms: D034861:Abdominal Wall / Q000098:blood supply*; D001656:Biliary Atresia / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D003287:Contrast Media; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007479:Iopamidol; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008643:Mesentery / Q000098:blood supply*; D010690:Phlebography; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D007479:Iopamidol