Dual balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration of gastric varix draining into the left adrenal vein and left inferior phrenic vein

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2004 Sep-Oct;27(5):560-2. doi: 10.1007/s00270-004-0185-3.

Abstract

A 66-year-old woman with a gastric varix, draining into a dilated left adrenal vein and a left inferior phrenic vein, was treated with dual balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (B-RTO). Under balloon occlusion of the left adrenal vein and the left inferior phrenic vein, retrograde injection of a sclerosant (5% ethanolamine oleate) into the gastric varix was performed. Two weeks later, disappearance of flow in the gastric varix was confirmed on endoscopic ultrasound examination.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adrenal Glands / blood supply*
  • Aged
  • Balloon Occlusion*
  • Esophageal and Gastric Varices / therapy*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Stomach / blood supply*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Veins / pathology
  • Veins / surgery
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / pathology
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / surgery