Amoebic liver abscess with hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm: successful treatment by interventional radiology

Ajit K Yadav; Saumya Gupta; Sudarsan Hariprasad; Ashish Kumar; Samarjit S Ghuman; Arun Gupta

doi:10.1016/j.jceh.2014.12.009

Amoebic liver abscess with hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm: successful treatment by interventional radiology

J Clin Exp Hepatol. 2015 Mar;5(1):86-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jceh.2014.12.009. Epub 2015 Jan 6.

Authors

Ajit K Yadav¹, Saumya Gupta², Sudarsan Hariprasad², Ashish Kumar³, Samarjit S Ghuman², Arun Gupta¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Interventional Radiology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi 110060, India.
² Department of Radio-Diagnosis, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi 110060, India.
³ Department of Gastroenterology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi 110060, India.

Abstract

Amoebic liver abscess is most common extra-intestinal presentation of amoebiasis. It is rarely complicated with vascular involvement including thrombosis of hepatic vein or IVC and pseudo-aneurysm of hepatic artery. We describe a case of hepatic artery pseudo-aneurysm as a complication of amoebic liver abscess treated with percutaneous embolization.

Keywords: ALA, amoebic liver abscess; CT, computed tomography; IVC, inferior vena cava; NBCA, N-butyl cyanoacrylate; PVA, poly vinyl alcohol particles; amoebiasis; embolization; percutaneous; pseudoaneurysm.