title: Successful treatment of mesenteric varices by retrograde transvenous obliteration by the delivery of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate via an abdominal wall vein.
abstract: Bleeding from mesenteric varices associated with portal hypertension is occasionally life-threatening. A 53-year-old man who had undergone esophageal transection for esophageal varices and balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for gastric varices presented with melena due to ruptured mesenteric varices. He was treated by injecting N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate via an abdominal wall vein to obtain retrograde transvenous obliteration.
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: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakasone
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.forename: Seijiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takamori
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Baba
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamashita
mesh_terms: D034861:Abdominal Wall / Q000098:blood supply; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003287:Contrast Media; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D004659:Enbucrilate / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008551:Melena / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D008643:Mesentery / Q000098:blood supply*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D004659:Enbucrilate