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Delayed, life-threatening lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage in an infant after serial transverse enteroplasty: treatment with transcatheter n-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate embolization

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We report a case of n-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate glue embolization of life-threatening lower gastrointestinal (LGI) hemorrhage in a 10-month-old boy. The child had a history of gastroschisis and short-bowel syndrome. Six months prior to the LGI bleed, he had undergone a serial transverse enteroplasty (STEP) to lengthen his intestine. To the best of our knowledge this is both the first report of successful glue embolization for LGI bleeding in a child and also the first report of severe hemorrhage after the STEP procedure.

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  1. Division of Image Guided Therapy, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave., Toronto, M5G 1X8, Canada

    Conor O. Bogue, Amin I. Alzahrani, Philip R. John & Joao G. Amaral

  2. Department of Surgery and the Group for Improvement of Intestinal Function and Treatment (GIFT), The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

    Paul W. Wales

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Bogue, C.O., Alzahrani, A.I., Wales, P.W. et al. Delayed, life-threatening lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage in an infant after serial transverse enteroplasty: treatment with transcatheter n-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate embolization. Pediatr Radiol 39, 1098–1101 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-009-1328-0

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