Moon Suk-Bae, Park Kwi-Won, Jae Hwan Jun, Jung Sung-Eun
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul 110-744, South Korea.
J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Jul;44(7):e27-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.04.005.
Massive bleeding from the porta hepatis is a rare complication after a Kasai portoenterostomy and usually requires urgent surgical intervention. Among the causes of the porta hepatis bleeding, bleeding from the injured caudate arterial branches has never been reported. Here, we describe 2 cases of caudate arterial branch bleeding after a Kasai portoenterostomy, which were successfully treated with transcatheter arterial embolization without laparotomy.