Hemobilia como causa infrecuente y grave de hemorragia digestiva alta / Hemobilia as a rare and serious cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Introducción: La hemobilia es por definición una causa de hemorragia digestiva alta, donde existe una comunicación de la vía biliar en cualquiera de sus segmentos con vasos sanguíneos que desembocan a través de la ampolla de Vater. Su presentación es infrecuente y no sospechada en la práctica clínica diaria de gastroenterólogos, cirujanos, hepatólogos, clínicos e intensivistas, con un difícil manejo diagnóstico-terapéutico y una elevada morbi-mortalidad. Objetivo: Describir tres casos de pacientes con diagnóstico de hemobilia. Desarrollo: Se presentan tres casos con hemobilia que tuvieron una elevada mortalidad y con diferente etiología; en el primer caso por trombosis de la arteria hepática postrasplante hepático, el segundo secundario a un colangiocarcinoma de la unión hepatocística y el tercero con diagnóstico de un aneurisma de la arteria hepática derecha confirmado y parcialmente tratado por angiotomografía, posteriormente intervenido quirúrgicamente y único sobreviviente. Conclusiones: Resultaron tres casos con hemobilia de diferentes causas, con una elevada mortalidad por la intensidad de la hemorragia digestiva alta y las comorbilidades asociadas, además de señalar que ninguno de ellos presentó la tríada clásica reportada por Quincke(AU)

Introduction: Hemobilia is, by definition, a cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, where there is a communication of the bile duct in any of its segments with blood vessels that flow through the ampulla of Vater. It is rare and it is not suspected in the daily clinical practice of gastroenterologists, surgeons, hepatologists, clinicians and intensivists, hence the diagnostic-therapeutic management is difficult and it has high morbidity and mortality. Objective: To report three cases of patients with a diagnosis of hemobilia. Case report: We report three cases of hemobilia of high mortality and different etiology. The first case had post-liver transplantation hepatic artery thrombosis, the second had asecondary cholangiocarcinoma of the hepatocystic junction and the third had diagnosis of confirmed right hepatic artery aneurysm partially treated by CT angiography, subsequently operated on and the only survivor. Conclusions: These three hemobilia cases had different causes, and high mortality due to the intensity of the upper gastrointestinal bleeding and the associated comorbidities, in addition to noting that none of them exhibited the classic triad reported by Quincke(AU)

Percutaneous Unilateral Biliary Metallic Stent Placement in Patients with Malignant Obstruction of the Biliary Hila and Contralateral Portal Vein Steno-Occlusion

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the outcomes of percutaneous unilateral metallic stent placement in patients with a malignant obstruction of the biliary hila and a contralateral portal vein steno-occlusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixty patients with a malignant hilar obstruction and unilobar portal vein steno-occlusion caused by tumor invasion or preoperative portal vein embolization were enrolled in this retrospective study from October 2010 to October 2013. All patients were treated with percutaneous placement of a biliary metallic stent, including expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE)-covered stents in 27 patients and uncovered stents in 33 patients. RESULTS: A total of 70 stents were successfully placed in 60 patients. Procedural-related minor complications, including self-limiting hemobilia (n = 2) and cholangitis (n = 4) occurred in six (10%) patients. Acute cholecystitis occurred in two patients. Successful internal drainage was achieved in 54 (90%) of the 60 patients. According to a Kaplan-Meier analysis, median survival time was 210 days (95% confidence interval [CI], 135-284 days), and median stent patency time was 133 days (95% CI, 94-171 days). No significant difference in stent patency was observed between covered and uncovered stents (p = 0.646). Stent dysfunction occurred in 16 (29.6%) of 54 patients after a mean of 159 days (range, 65-321 days). CONCLUSION: Unilateral placement of ePTFE-covered and uncovered stents in the hepatic lobe with a patent portal vein is a safe and effective method for palliative treatment of patients with a contralateral portal vein steno-occlusion caused by an advanced hilar malignancy or portal vein embolization. No significant difference in stent patency was detected between covered and uncovered metallic stents.

Hemobilia após trauma abdominal: relato de 3 casos / Hemobilia after abdominal trauma: report of 3 cases

Hemobilia é rara e potencialmente fatal. A suspeita de sangramento em trato biliar é maior em casos recentes de trauma hepático ou cirurgia hepatobiliar. Ruptura de pseudoaneurisma de artéria hepática é causa comum de hemobilia. Relatamos 3 casos de hemobilia em indivíduos jovens, acometidos por trauma abdominal, que evoluíram com ruptura de pseudoaneurisma e necessidade de embolização angiográfica de vaso sangrante.

Hemobilia is rare and potentially fatal. Suspect bleeding in the biliary tract is higher in recent cases of liver trauma or hepatobiliary surgery. Rupture of hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm is a common cause of hemobilia. We report 3 cases of hemobilia in young individuals suffering from abdominal trauma, who developed pseudoaneurysm rupture and need for angiographic embolization of bleeding vessel.

Hemobilia como forma inusual de presentación en la enfermedad de Caroli / Hemobile as an unusual presentation form of the Caroli´s disease

La enfermedad de Caroli, o ectasia comunicante de las vías biliares intrahepáticas, es una entidad congénita, caracterizada por múltiples dilataciones saculares o quísticas de las vías biliares intrahepáticas. En este trabajo se hace presentación de un nuevo caso portador de enfermedad de Caroli. Se trata de una paciente de raza blanca, de 26 años de edad, con antecedentes de buena salud anterior, que ingresa por fiebre elevada de 39 ºC, hepatomegalia dolorosa e imágenes hipoecoicas en el hígado, detectadas en la ultrasonografia, con aminotransferasas hepáticas ligeramente elevadas. En el segundo ingreso sufre complicaciones febriles y de sangramiento digestivo alto por hemobilia importante, que compromete la hemodinamia y junto a la sepsis dan al traste con su vida. La paciente ingresa por crisis de colangitis y presentó un hemobilia importante que la llevó a complicaciones hemodinámicas, colangitis ascendente, y finalmente a sepsis generalizada como causa de muerte.

Caroli´s disease, or communicant ectasia of the intrahepatic biliary ducts, is a congenital entity, characterized by multiple saccular or cystic dilatations of the intrahepatic biliary ducts. In this work we present a new case of a carrier of Caroli’s disease. It deals with a female patient, aged 26 years, with antecedents of good health status, who entered the hospital with high fever of 39oC, painful hepatomegaly and hyper echoic images in the liver, detected in the ultrasonography, with slightly raised hepatic aminotranferases. During the second staying in the hospital she suffered fever complications and high digestive bleeding caused by important hemobile that compromised the hemodynamics and together with sepsis caused her to die. The patient entered the hospital because of cholangitis and presented an important hemobile leading her to hemodynamic complications, ascendant cholangitis, and finally a generalized sepsis as death cause.

Massive Bleeding Hemobilia Occurred in Patient with Hepatocellular Carcinoma / 대한소화기학회지

Massive bleeding hemobilia occurs rarely in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) without any invasive procedure. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patient with cirrhosis and abdominal pain with progressive jaundice in patient with HCC were usually thought as variceal bleeding and HCC progression respectively. We experienced recently massive bleeding hemobilia in patient with HCC who was a 73-year old man and showed sudden abdominal pain, jaundice and hematochezia. He had alcoholic cirrhosis and history of variceal bleeding. One year ago, he was diagnosed as HCC and treated with transarterial chemoembolization periodically. Sudden right upper abdominal pain occurred then subsided with onset of hemotochezia. Computed tomography showed bile duct thrombosis spreading in the intrahepatic and extrahepatic ducts, while an ampulla of vater bleeding was observed during duodenoscopy. Hemobilia could be one of the causes of massive bleeding in patients with cirrhosis and HCC especially when they had sudden abdominal pain and abrupt elevation of bilirubin.

Right hepatic arterial pseudoaneurysm with hemobilia following minilaparotomy cholecystectomy: a rare complication

Hepatic arterial pseudoaneurysm with hemobilia occurs less frequently as a complication of minilaparotomy cholecystectomy than laparoscopic cholecystectomy; however, given its severe nature, it needs to be managed promptly. This report presents a case of right hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm with hemobilia in a 36-year-old woman who underwent minilaparotomy cholecystectomy 5 weeks earlier. Angiography with embolization was carried out as definitive treatment

Non-traumatic right hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm: an unusual cause of hemobilia and obstructive jaundice

Most hepatic artery pseudoaneurysms [HAPA] are post traumatic, and non-traumatic pseudoaneurysm is rarely reported. It is a potentially life threatening vascular disorder and difficult to diagnose before rupture. Early diagnosis and prompt nonoperative intervention of this lesion could be life saving. The authors report the case of a patient with hemobilia caused by ruptured right hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm and subsequently developed right hepatic duct stricture, which has not been reported previously. This patient was successfully treated with endovascular stent graft of pseudoaneurysm and endoscopic stenting of right hepatic duct stricture

Cystic artery pseudoaneurysm after laparoscopic cholecystectomy presenting as haemobilia: a case report.

Cystic artery pseudoaneurysm which developed following a cholecystectomy and resulting in upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a rare entity, with only three cases described in the literature. We report the case of a 26-year old man who presented with upper gastrointestinal bleeding approximately three months after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Emergency abdominal angiogram revealed a cystic artery stump pseudoaneurysm, with no evidence of active contrast extravasation. The pseudoaneurysm was coil embolised and the patient had no further bleeding episodes. In this situation an angiogram and embolisation rather than surgery is the preferred mode of management both in terms of diagnosis and treatment. The presence of a dilated cystic artery stump on angiogram following cholecystectomy is an "ominous sign", even in the absence of active extravasation of contrast.

Hepatic Artery Pseudoaneurysm Associated with Plastic Biliary Stent

The increased use of interventional procedures and laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the management of hepatobiliary disorders is associated with an increased incidence of hemobilia and hepatic artery aneurysm. Here we report a case of hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm associated with a plastic biliary stent. Multiple factors were involved in the formation of the hepatic artery aneurysm (HAA) and it was successfully treated by embolization.

Hemobilia from Pancreatic Arteriovenous Malformation: Successful Treatment with Transportal Coil Embolization of Draining Veins / 대한소화기학회지

Pancreatic arteriovenous malformations (AVM) are extremely rare diseases frequently complicated by gastrointestinal hemorrhage. While surgical resection of affected lesion is preferred for the treatment of pancreatic AVM, angiographic intervention can be used as an alternative treatment, especially in surgically high-risk patients. We experienced a patient with pancreatic AVM manifested by hemobilia and biliary sepsis. Superior mesenteric and common hepatic arteriography showed pancreaticoduodenal AVM composed of nidus supplied by numerous fine feeding arteries and of draining veins encircling the common bile duct (CBD). Hemobilia was controlled by transportal coil embolization of draining veins of AVM around the CBD. Herein, we report this case with the review of literatures.

A Case of Acute Cholecystitis Secondary to Hemobilia after Percutaneous Liver Biopsy / 대한소화기학회지

Percutaneous liver biopsy is well established for the diagnosis and follow-up of many liver diseases. Although it is rather safe, major complications, such as bleeding into the peritoneal or thoracic cavity, hemobilia, enteric perforation and intrahepatic hematoma, have been reported related to the procedure. Recently, incidence of such major complications has been decreased since the introduction of ultrasonography-guided liver biopsy. We report a case of 59-year-old female patient with acute cholecystitis secondary to hemobilia 2 days after ultrasonography-guided percutaneous liver biopsy.

Haemobilia after blunt hepatic traumatism: interest of the arteriography and the embolisation

The hemobilia is the result of a pathological communication between bile ducts and vessels the intra or extra hepatic. We reported a case of a 48 year old patient who was admitted to emergency service for an accident of the public highway with a central hepatic-hematome, detected by scanner. The treatment consisted of a simple monitoring. Three weeks after the hepatic contusion, the patient developed a hemobilia by cracking of intra hepatic a pseudoaneurism in the bile ducts, the diagnosis had been evoked by the presence of hematemess, directed by Doppler echo, and confirmed by the coeliace arteriography. The haemostasis was successfully treated by precutneous arteriographic embolisation. Without recurrence for two years. The post traumatic hemobilia is a rare complication of the hepatic contusions, observed in 0.5 to 2 percent of the cases. Traditional symptomatology gathers three signs or triad of Sandbloom, which biliary colics, ictere and diagestive haemorrhage. Pulsated the Doppler echo is an effective examination in the tracking of the hepatic aneurisms. The surgery which was formerly the treatment of choice of the hemobilies currently left place to the percutaneous embolisation

Haemobilia due to a large gall bladder polyp.

A 61-year-old male presented with recurrent bouts of haematemesis and melaena for last 10 days. On examination, he was found anaemic and had jaundice and a mass felt in the right hypochondrium. He required multiple blood transfusions. Oesophagogastroduodenoscopic (OGD) evaluation demonstrated no lesion, no fresh bleeding noticed from ampulla of Vater. Ultrasonographic evaluation demonstrated a heterogeneous mass within the gall bladder lumen with a chink of free lumen between the mass and gall bladder wall and also dilated biliary tract. Laparotomy confirmed mass within the gall bladder lumen without any lymph node involvement at porta or any liver metastasis, and had dilated common bile duct. Cholecystectomy was carried out. The cut section of the gall bladder showed a polypoid mass (5.5 cm x 4 cm) projecting inside lumen having a haemorrhagic spot on irregular surface and which was attached with fundus of the gall bladder through a small stalk. Choledochotomy showed only blood clots within the duct-choledochoduodenostomy was also done. Histopathological examination showed adenomatous polyp with foci of carcinoma in-situ or ly without any evidence of local metastasis. Follow-up was uneventful till after 11 months.

Post cholecystectomy hemobilia: transcatheter embolization of pseudoaneurysms with homemade steel coils.

Two patients presented with hemobilia, one and two months following cholecystectomy. Angiography demonstrated pseudoaneurysms arising form the gastroduodenal and right hepatic arteries. Percutaneous transcatheter embolization of the pseudoaneurysms was successfully performed in both patients using homemade steel coils.

Pseudoaneurysm of gastroduodenal artery associated with mitral valve prolapse presenting as haemobilia.

Pseudoaneurysms of the hepatic or gastroduodenal arteries may cause Haemobilia. Mitral valve prolapse associated with mycotic pseudoaneurysm of cerebral and extracerebral arteries have been reported. We report a case of gastroduodenal artery pseudoaneurysm presenting as haemobilia. The patient was successfully treated with indigenously fabricated steel coil embolization followed by surgery.

Iatrogenic hemobilia: management with transarterial embolization using gelfoam particles.

Four patients with life threatening bleeding hemobilia from the hepatic artery were successfully treated with transarterial embolization with small gelfoam particles with no recurrence of bleeding on follow-up study. The iatragenic hemobilia occurred inadvertently during surgery in two patients, with liver biopsy in one patient and percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage procedure in another patient. Transarterial embolization appears safe and may be regarded as a life-saving treatment for bleeding hemobilia.

Carcinoma gall bladder presenting as hemobilia.

A 60-year-old man presented with recurrent bouts of melena, requiring multiple transfusions. Upper GI endoscopic evaluation demonstrated fresh bleeding from the ampulla of Vater. Ultrasonography and CT scan suggested a gall bladder mass without evidence of metastases. Laparotomy confirmed a mass confined to the lumen of the gall bladder. The patient underwent cholecystectomy. Histological examination showed papillary adenocarcinoma of the gall bladder extending up to the muscularis propria.