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Successful Treatment of Mesenteric Varices After Living Donor Liver Transplantation with Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration Via an Abdominal Wall Vein

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Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration is an established treatment for gastric varices; it has been used more rarely to treat mesenteric varices. We report a 12-year-old girl who had received a living donor liver transplant and suffered melena due to ruptured mesenteric varices. We addressed treatment of the mesenteric varices by retrograde transvenous obliteration of an abdominal wall collateral vein detected by superior mesenteric arteriography.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto, 860-8505, Japan

    Osamu Ikeda, Yoshitaka Tamura, Yutaka Nakasone & Yasuyuki Yamashita

  2. Department of Transplantation & Pediatric Surgery, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto, 860-8505, Japan

    Hideaki Okajima, Katsuhiro Asonuma & Yukihiro Inomata

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Ikeda, O., Tamura, Y., Nakasone, Y. et al. Successful Treatment of Mesenteric Varices After Living Donor Liver Transplantation with Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration Via an Abdominal Wall Vein. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 33, 631–634 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-009-9659-7

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