OBJECTIVES To evaluate the incidence of active bleeding complications following transplant and the efficacy of interventional radiologic management. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between June 2000 and February 2007, 14 liver transplant patients with active bleeding were treated via endovascular techniques (coils, glue, or graft-covered stents). Active bleeding was spontaneous in 6 patients through th...

pericardial hemangioma is very rare and their coincidence with other visceral hemamgiomas is exceptional. we are reporting a 72-year-old man with an incidentally discovered pericardial hemangioma during coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) and mitral valve replacement surgery and a prior history of multiple hepatic cavernous hemangiomas. this case has been reported due to its extreme rarity. to ...

The stomach has an arterial supply on both the lesser and greater curves . On the lesser curve, the left gastric artery, a branch of the coeliac axis, forms an anastomotic arcade with the right gastric artery, which arises from the common hepatic artery. The gastroduodenal artery, which is also a branch of the hepatic artery, passes behind the first part of the duodenum. Here it divides into th...

The hepatic arterial anatomy is highly variable. A 67 year female with pancreatic mass and replaced common hepatic artery originating from the superior mesenteric artery underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). The anomalous vessel was discovered on preoperative CT scan and MRI. The vessel was dissected and preserved as it passed dorsal to the pancreas. Preservation of the blood supply to the li...

Hemobilia is a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding. Most cases are iatrogenic following medical interventions, most commonly liver biopsy and transhepatic cholangiography. We present a case of arteriobiliary fistula between the right hepatic artery and the common hepatic duct, in a case of Mirrizi syndrome, following endoscopic biliary stenting and presenting with hemobilia. The...

Amongst therapies for unresectable hepatocellular carcinomas, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and hepatic artery chemoembolization have clinical application either for local tumor destruction or to control tumor progression and recurrence rate. Herein we present a patient with a large hepatocellular carcinoma, chronic hepatitis B and congenital absence of left hepatic lobe treated with hepatic ar...

Hexamethylmelamine (HMM) is a cytotoxic agent demonstrated to have broad antitumor activity. Poor solubility in aqueous media has precluded significant evaluation of parenteral administration of this drug. A formulation of HMM dissolved in Intralipid has demonstrated excellent tolerance following parenteral administration. The goal of this study was to evaluate the pharmacology of HMM in Intral...

Between 2001 and 2005, nine patients with liver hemorrhage underwent non-surgical embolotherapy. There were six males and three females, ranging in age from 9 to 58 years. All patients were symptomatic with hypotension and decreasing hematocrit. Causes of liver hemorrhage included liver laceration following blunt abdominal injury (2 patients), pseudoaneurysms of hepatic artery following blunt a...

Hepatic in involvement in hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia can lead to cirrhosis and occasionally to portal hypertension and variceal haemorrhage. The ultrasonographic, arteriographic and histological findings are described in a patient with this complication. Hepatic artery embolisation proved unsuccessful in arresting repeated haemorrhage which was eventually controlled by hepatic arter...