Pulmonary Embolization of 2-Octyl Cyanoacrylate After Endoscopic Injection Therapy for Gastric Variceal Bleeding

Pulmonary embolism following 2-octyl-cyanoacrylate/lipiodol injection for obliteration of gastric varices: an imaging perspective.

Bleeding from esophageal and gastric varices remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality for patients with liver cirrhosis. Currently, therapeutic strategies for gastric variceal bleeding include transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, cyanoacrylate sclerotherapy and hepatic transplantation. Though relatively safe and efficacious, endoscopic sclerotherapy using cyanoacrylate h...

Duodenal Variceal Bleeding Successfully Treated by Endoscopic N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate Injection

∗ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Costa). therapeutic procedures have not yet been established for bleeding from duodenal varices. Endoscopic band ligation, sclerotherapy, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration, and resection of a segment of bleeding site have been used for treatment.2--5 We presen...

Fatal aeromonas hydrophila infection of soft tissue after endoscopic injection sclerotherapy for gastric variceal bleeding.

Aeromonas hydrophila, an anaerobic gram-negative bacillus, can cause severe infections in immune-compromised patients. We present a 45-year-old cirrhotic man who suffered from hematemesis and received emergency endoscopic injection sclerotherapy (EIS) for gastric variceal bleeding. Twenty-one hours after EIS, painful swelling of the bilateral lower extremities and fever occurred. Severe soft-ti...

Fatal N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate pulmonary embolism after sclerotherapy for variceal bleeding.

Successful treatment of persistent bacteremia after endoscopic injection of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate for gastric varices bleeding.

late has been used successfully for the he− mostatic treatment of bleeding gastric varices [1]. Various complications asso− ciated with the procedure have been re− ported [2]. The prevalence of infectious complications could range from 4.3 % to 50 %, and most are transient and unevent− ful [3]. Because prolonged and persistent septic complications have been rarely re− ported, the appropriate st...