Clinical Study
Treatment of Nonvariceal Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage by Transcatheter Embolization
Table 3
Characteristics of 114 patients who revealed bleeding site and underwent therapeutic embolization.
| | Characteristics | Results |
| | Technical success | 112 (98%) | | Site | | | Upper GI hemorrhage | 47 (41%) | | Lower GI hemorrhage | 67 (59%) | | Embolization | | | Proximal (selective) | 21 (19%) | | Distal (superselective) | 91 (81%) | | Arteries embolized | | | Gastroduodenal artery | 36 (32%) | | Ileocolic artery | 28 (25%) | | Right colic artery | 12 (11%) | | Jejunal branches of SMA | 10 (8.9%) | | Left gastric artery | 09 (8.0%) | | Superior rectal artery | 07 (6.2%) | | Ileal branches of SMA | 05 (4.4%) | | Left colic artery | 04 (3.6%) | | Middle colic artery | 01 (0.9%) | | Embolization material | | | Microcoils | 69 (62%) | | PVA particles | 33 (29%) | | PVA with microcoils | 09 (8.0%) | | Gel foam | 01 (0.9%) |
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