Case report and systematic literature review of a novel etiology of sinistral portal hypertension presenting with Ugi bleeding: Left gastric artery pseudoaneurysm compressing the splenic vein treated by embolization of the pseudoaneurysm.

Seifeldin Hakim,Jared Bortman,Molly Orosey,Mitchell S. Cappell

Case report and systematic literature review of a novel etiology of sinistral portal hypertension presenting with Ugi bleeding: Left gastric artery pseudoaneurysm compressing the splenic vein treated by embolization of the pseudoaneurysm.

2017

Seifeldin Hakim
Jared Bortman
Molly Orosey
Mitchell S. Cappell

AbstractIntroduction:A novel case is reported of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) bleeding from sinistral portal hypertension, caused by a left gastric artery (LGA) pseudoaneurysm (PA) compressing the splenic vein (SV) that was successfully treated with PA embolization.Case report:A 41-year-old man with

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Systematic review
Diabetes mellitus
Medicine
Embolization
Etiology
Splenic vein
Radiology
Left gastric artery
Portal hypertension
Surgery
Pseudoaneurysm
upper gastrointestinal
Aneurysm

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