Interventional Radiology - Case Report 2016

Hepatic artery aneurysm presenting with hemobilia in a patient with Behçet?s disease: treatment with percutaneous transcatheteral embolization

  • Adam Hatzidakis
  • Jannis Petrakis
  • Miltiadis Krokidis
  • Dimitrios Tsetis
  • Nicholas Gourtsoyiannis

Received Date: 01.06.2005 Accepted Date: 21.11.2005 Diagn Interv Radiol 2006;12(1):53-55

We herein report a case of hemobilia caused by a hepatic artery aneurysm. A 40-year-old male patient with a history of Behçet?s disease with a thrombus hanging out of the papilla of Vater had a large hepatic aneurysm in angiography. The hepatic artery feeding the aneurysm was embolized. Endovascular treatment can treat patients with hepatic artery aneurysms caused by Behçet?s disease.

Keywords: Behcet syndrome, hepatic artery, aneurysm, embolization, therapeutic