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Elsevier, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2(27), p. 203-207, 2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2015.11.028

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Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration for Isolated Gastric Varices Draining through Pericardiophrenic Vein without Gastrorenal or Gastrocaval Shunts

Journal article published in 2015 by Miyuki Maruno, Hiro Kiyosue ORCID, Shuichi Tanoue, Norio Hongo ORCID, Hiromu Mori
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) is an effective and minimally invasive treatment for isolated gastric varices (GVs) that is usually performed through a gastrorenal shunt (GRS) or gastrocaval shunt (GCS). However, there are some cases in which GVs drain mainly into the left pericardiophrenic vein without an accessible GRS or GCS. This brief report presents four cases of GVs without a GRS/GCS treated by BRTO through the pericardiophrenic vein. BRTO was successfully performed with the use of flexible balloon catheters without any complications in all four patients, and the GVs were completely obliterated.