Usefulness of Balloon-Assisted Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Thrombin Injection to Femoral Artery Pseudoaneurysm by Transradial Artery Approach

Abstract

Balloon-Assisted Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Thrombin Injection (BATI) is useful for iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm. In previous reports, BATI for pseudoaneurysm of the femoral artery was performed by contralateral transfemoral approach. It has been reported that patients with obesity, hypertension, and diabetes have more hemorrhagic complications at the puncture site of the femoral artery. We report a case in which BATI by transradial artery approach was useful for patients with obesity, hypertension, and diabetes who were expected to be at high risk of hemorrhagic complications of transfemoral artery approach.

Keywords: Balloon-Assisted Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Thrombin Injection; Hemorrhagic complication; Iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm; Transradial artery approach.