Open AccessAngiography as an Aid in Extra-enteric Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Visceral Artery Aneurysm
Author(s) -
Michael F. Keehan,
Robert L. Kistner,
Joseph C. Banis
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-197804000-00002
Subject(s) - medicine , angiography , aneurysm , gastrointestinal bleeding , radiology , cardiology
Three unusual patients with visceral artery aneurysms involving the hepatic artery, inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery, and a mesenteric branch artery are presented. Each of these lesions is unusual and all were diagnosed preoperatively. Surgical intervention was planned on the basis of angiography. In two patients with hypovolemia a simple diagnostic approach employing emergency selective angiography was formulated and successfully used.