A 64-year-old male visited our emergency department due to severe right flank pain after falling from a 2-meter height. Contrast-enhanced CT revealed a right hemothorax with multiple fractures in the right ribs and iliac bone. A small hematoma in the right perihepatic space was noted, but there was no hepatic laceration on CT. Initial surgical management led to continuous uncontrolled bleeding around the porta hepatis, and subsequent arterial angiography could not demonstrate a bleeding focus. However, immediate follow-up CT showed contrast extravasation on the left side of abdomen, and a percutaneous transhepatic portal venogram revealed active bleeding from the left portal vein. Although the wound was embolized with a glue, the patient suffered from a cardiac arrest and finally expired. In conclusion, during evaluation of abdominal trauma patients, portal vein bleeding and contrecoup injuries should be considered when hepatic arteriography findings are nremarkable.
죽종절제술은 당뇨병과 만성콩팥병증 등에 의해 발생하는 말초동맥질환에서 유망한 치료법이다. 죽종절제술은 기계적 방법을 통해 죽종 조직을 제거하여 혈관의 내경을 확대하는 것을 말한다. 방법의 특성상 주로 경피적 미세 침습 접근 방식에 국한하여 통용되는 용어이며, 현재 한국에서 사용 가능한 죽종절제술 장치는 두 가지가 있다. 죽종절제술이 성행하면서 “혈관 준비”라는 개념과 “아무것도 남기지 않기”라는 새로운 치료 개념이 대두되었다. 다양한 연구들이 죽종제거술의 안전성과 효용성을 증명하고 있지만 그 한계도 존재하므로, 환자 선택에 신중을 기할 필요가 있고 후속적인 대규모의 연구가 필요하다.
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