Acta Radiologica Open (Mar 2012)

Successful treatment of ruptured duodenal varices with dual balloon-occluded embolotherapy

  • Osamu Ikeda,
  • Yutaka Nakasone,
  • Toru Beppu,
  • Hideo Baba,
  • Yasuyuki Yamashita

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1258/arsr.2012.120008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 2
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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Duodenal varices are ectopic portosystemic shunts that do not tend to result in gastrointestinal bleeding. Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration is an established treatment for gastric varices. We report a 60-year-old man with melena due to ruptured duodenal varices originating at an inferior pancreaticoduodenal vein; drainage was into a gonadal vein. His ruptured duodenal varices were successfully treated by dual balloon-occluded embolotherapy.