Life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding from splenic artery pseudoaneurysm due to gastric ulcer penetration treated by surgical hemostasis with resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta: A case report

Tomonori Nakata; Yuko Okishio; Kentaro Ueda; Toru Nasu; Shuji Kawashima; Kosei Kunitatsu; Seiya Kato

doi:10.1002/ccr3.5561

Life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding from splenic artery pseudoaneurysm due to gastric ulcer penetration treated by surgical hemostasis with resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta: A case report

Clin Case Rep. 2022 Mar 10;10(3):e05561. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.5561. eCollection 2022 Mar.

Authors

Tomonori Nakata¹, Yuko Okishio¹, Kentaro Ueda¹, Toru Nasu¹, Shuji Kawashima¹, Kosei Kunitatsu¹, Seiya Kato¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Wakayama Medical University Wakayama Japan.

Abstract

We report the case of a patient for whom surgical hemostasis of gastrointestinal bleeding due to a splenic artery pseudoaneurysm, which developed due to gastric ulcer penetration, was achieved with resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta without ischemia of organs including the spleen.

Keywords: aneurysm; balloon occlusion; non‐traumatic hemorrhage; shock; surgical hemostasis.

Publication types

Case Reports