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Application of interventional embolization in the treatment of iatrogenic pseudoaneurysms
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Abstract
Introduction
Pseudoaneurysms are caused by some forms of arterial injury, which include perivascular inflammatory reactions or infections, direct vascular trauma or iatrogenic factors (1,2). With the advancement of complex surgical operations, iatrogenic pseudoaneurysms are relatively commonly encountered in clinical practice. Patients may present with sentinel bleeding or delayed hemorrhage, which may be easily overlooked (3). These pseudoaneurysms, with the lack of complete vascular wall structure, gradually increase in size and are under a growing strain with the continuous impact of blood flow, eventually resulting in burst and sudden bleeding.
The overall incidence of pseudoaneurysms following abdominal and pelvic surgery or radiological intervention is relatively low (4,5). If appropriate treatment is not undertaken in a timely fashion, pseudoaneurysm may be associated with high morbidity and mortality. Visceral artery pseudoaneurysms (VAPA) refer to pseudoaneurysms occurring in the celiac artery, superior mesenteric artery, or inferior mesenteric artery and their branches. VAPA may manifest as gastrointestinal hemorrhage (hematemesis, hematochezia) or abdominal hemorrhage (hematoma, abdominal hematoma), which is frequently evident as continuous hemorrhagic fluid from the abdominal drainage tube. A pseudoaneurysm from the pelvic internal iliac artery may also manifest as abdominal and pelvic hemorrhage or hematoma. A pseudoaneurysm may be particularly life-threatening among patients with thrombocytopenia or consumptive coagulopathy and therefore, these patients require rapid clinical evaluation and treatment (6,7).
Ultrasound with doppler and contrast-enhanced techniques are commonly used as an initial screening tool for pseudoaneurysm (8). However, CT angiography (CTA) and digital subtraction angiography (DSA), are the formal diagnostic tools for pseudoaneurysm (9). On CTA, a pseudoaneurysm may be seen as a bubble-shaped (saccular), irregular nodule budding from the lateral wall of the artery. DSA may not only clearly show the location, size and shape of the pseudoaneurysm but also its relationship with the parent artery (10,11). Pseudoaneurysms are conventionally managed by surgery, including surgical ligation, aneurysm resection and even the removal of affected organs. More recently, endovascular embolization has gradually become the preferred option of treatment instead of surgery, given that it may be rapidly applied to hemodynamically unstable patients while avoiding major surgical trauma, particularly among patients with extensive comorbidities. Several studies have also indicated high success and low recurrence rates of pseudoaneurysm treated by endovascular embolization, justifying the expansion of its applications in clinical practice (12-14).
The present study provided a retrospective review, reporting on the practice and experience of endovascular embolization at the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College (Nanchong, China). The clinical effectiveness and safety of this treatment for secondary pseudoaneurysm following abdominal and pelvic surgery or radiological percutaneous abdominal procedure were investigated.
Materials and methods
Patients
All patients with pseudoaneurysm secondary to radiological intervention or abdominal or pelvic surgery, who were then treated with endovascular embolization from January 2014 to May 2019 at the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College were included in the present study for a retrospective review. The present study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College (Nanchong, China). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria
The inclusion criteria were as follows: i) patients presented with symptoms of bleeding after abdominal or pelvic surgery; and ii) patients without contraindications that underwent emergency arteriography or embolization therapy. The following exclusion criteria were applied: i) patients who are allergic to iodinated contrast media; ii) patients who refused interventional therapy; and iii) patients who underwent angiography without embolization.
Angiography and endovascular embolization technique
The Seldinger technique was used to puncture the femoral artery percutaneously, followed by the insertion of a 5F catheter sheath, as described in the previous study (15). Subsequently, a 5F Pig catheter, RH catheter, Yashiro catheter and Simon 1 catheter (Terumo or Cordis Co.) were inserted. Angiography of the abdominal aorta, celiac artery, common hepatic artery, splenic artery, gastroduodenal artery (GDA), superior mesenteric artery, inferior phrenic artery, inferior mesenteric artery, and the internal and external iliac artery, respectively, was performed to determine the location of bleeding and pseudoaneurysm, the size of the parent artery and the condition of collateral vessels.
A coil was routinely used for embolization at the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College. Various techniques for coil applications, including sac packing, isolation and sandwich, were applied using the Tower or Diamond coils (Boston VortX™-18 platinum coil or VortX™-18 Diamond platinum coil; 0.018 inches; Boston Scientific) and/or detachable coil embolization system (Interlock Fibered IDC occlusion system; 0.018 inches; Boston Scientific). The sac packing technique referred to the filling the pseudoaneurysm sac with microcoils using coaxial technology to push the distal end tip of a microcatheter (Renegade™ STC18; Boston Scientific) into the lumen and neck of the pseudoaneurysm. The isolation technique involved occluding the inflow and outflow embolization of the parent artery (exclusion embolization), while sandwich embolization involved embolizing the efferent artery, aneurysm cavity and afferent artery of the parent artery, respectively. When a pseudoaneurysm had been located on the lateral wall of the artery, the microcatheter was super-selectively placed to the sac, for which the sac packing technique was applied to maintain the patency of parent artery. If the pseudoaneurysm lumen was small and microcatheter insertion was difficult, isolation embolization was used instead of sac packing. The sandwich technique was performed for large pseudoaneurysms, or with collateral inflow and outflow arteries.
Post-embolization outcome assessment
When technical and clinical embolization therapy success was achieved, the study was stopped. The definitions and criteria for the effectiveness, technical success and clinical success of embolization were according to the Guidelines of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) (16). Technical success was defined as the arrest of bleeding, disappearance of the pseudoaneurysm or occlusion of the parent artery. Clinical success referred to the absence of acute bleeding symptoms, stable hemodynamics, decrease in hemoglobin no more than 15 g/l compared with the baseline level of hemoglobin prior to embolization, no requirement for blood transfusion, no evidence of ongoing loss of blood in the abdominal drainage tube and no requirement for re-angiography or surgical intervention (17). The short-term clinical outcomes and the long-term clinical outcomes were evaluated, including abdominal pain, fever and other clinical parameters, including hemoglobin levels, signs of hemorrhage and vital signs. Follow-up CTAs or enhanced CTs were also reviewed within 6 months after embolization to evaluate the recurrence rate of the pseudoaneurysm or any evidence of ectopic embolism. The SIR criteria were also used for the classification of complications after embolization.
Results
Clinical features and angiographic findings
A total of 31 eligible patients were identified and included in the present study. Of these, 17 patients developed abdominal pseudoaneurysm following pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD), 5 after subtotal gastrectomy, 3 after a biliary operation, 5 after resection of hilar tumors and 1 patient after the radiological percutaneous drainage of an intra-abdominal collection (Table I). There were 5 females and 26 males, with the age of 58.24±8.35 years. All patients presented clinically with either symptoms and signs of gastrointestinal bleeding, abdominal hemorrhage, drainage of hemorrhagic fluid through a drainage tube or local hematoma at varying degrees.
A total of 32 pseudoaneurysms were detected among these patients, of which 23 were located at the main trunk and branches of GDA, 5 were located at the splenic artery, 2 were located at the common hepatic artery, 1 was located at the right hepatic artery and 1 was located at the right internal iliac artery. Of note, one patient was determined to have developed 2 pseudoaneurysms at the right gastroepiploic artery following PD.
On angiography, the pseudoaneurysm displayed as a cystic shadow that protruded out of the artery. It appeared as a round or irregular-shaped nodule with sharp angles on the sac and clear edges. The parent arteries were mostly spasmodic, narrowed and stiffened.
All patients had progressive deterioration in the level of hemoglobin at varying degrees. In one patient with a continuous decrease in the hemoglobin level, the initial CTA did not reveal any evidence of pseudoaneurysm but the subsequent DSA was performed given the evidence of ongoing blood loss, which revealed a pseudoaneurysm of the right hepatic artery.
Embolization techniques and outcomes
The isolation technique was most commonly performed (19/32, 59%) for embolization, followed by the sandwich technique (8/32, 25%; representative cases in Figs. 1 and 2), the sac packing technique (3/32, 9%; representative case in Fig. 3) and the proximal embolization technique (2/32, 6%). Pseudoaneurysms located at the main trunk of the GDA and pancreatoduodenal artery with no obvious communication with the superior mesenteric artery and the splenic artery, were embolized with the sac packing technique. The proximal embolization technique was used to embolize the pseudoaneurysms that were located at the distal end of the artery without collateral arteries. Of the 32 embolization procedures performed, distal migration of the coil was observed in 1 patient only (Fig. 4).
Among 5 patients with splenic artery pseudoaneurysm undergoing sandwich embolization, the subsequent imaging did not indicate any large area of splenic necrosis and these patients did not develop any significant splenic infection. However, one patient with right hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm embolized by using the sandwich embolization technique had developed transient hepatocyte damage, as evidenced by the derangement of alanine transferase and aspartate aminotransferase in the blood liver function test. All embolization procedures had a technical and clinical success rate of 100% (32/32); none of the patients required repetition of the procedure and all patients achieved complete hemostasis following embolization with no episode of re-bleeding. A total of 2 patients with pancreatic head carcinoma died of multiorgan failure secondary to severe infection 2 weeks after PD, but their deaths were not directly associated with pseudoaneurysm or endovascular embolization. There were no severe complications such as gastrointestinal ischemia and necrosis.
Discussion
Pseudoaneurysm is usually caused by the disruption of arterial wall continuity. Such a disruption may be secondary to direct injury during an abdominal procedure or surgery or various endovascular treatments, or an indirect injury from post-operative peri-vascular inflammation or infections (18-20), resulting in the formation of pseudoaneurysm. The majority of patients in the present study had received hepatobiliary/gastric surgery. Such predilection may have been due to corrosion of the arteries around the pancreas by the pancreatic juice, causing pseudoaneurysm formation and delayed bleeding (11,21). The use of electrocautery and ultrasonic scalpel in the process of clearing the lymph nodes around the artery and removing its adventitia in addition to clamping of vessels during surgery may also lead to vascular injury and subsequent pseudoaneurysm formation (22). Therefore, it is not surprising that in radical hepatobiliary/gastric surgery, the elevated incidence of surgical complications was correlated with an increase in mortality rate associated with bleeding and pseudoaneurysm (22-25).
The risk of spontaneous rupture of a pseudoaneurysm is high and sentinel bleeding is generally regarded as a precursor of massive hemorrhage (3). Therefore, rapid and accurate diagnosis is crucial, with CTA having a sensitivity and accuracy rate of 95% (26,27). CTA is able to indicate the size and location of the aneurysm and its relationship between the parent artery and neck. One of the patients of the present study had a false-negative result on CTA, and DSA was used in this instance as a diagnostic adjunct to CTA. It also offers the possibility of therapeutic interventional therapy at the same time. During DSA, attention should be paid to the observation angle, flow rate and injection pressure of contrast agents to avoid missing small aneurysms. When necessary, magnification and multi-angle angiography should be performed (26-28).
Acute torrential hemorrhage from pseudoaneurysm may be treated by open surgical exploration/ligation or endovascular embolization (29). The following factors may affect the clinician's choice of different treatment methods: i) the time of bleeding and pseudoaneurysm; ii) comorbidities and complications, such as inflammation and infection; and iii) hemodynamics. Ligation, aneurysm resection and removal of an involved organ are the major methods of surgical treatment. Compared with the open surgical approach, endovascular therapy prevents any potential risk of serious complications caused by re-operation while minimizing further stress to impair the patient's organ function (13,17). Furthermore, the present study suggested that endovascular embolization was highly effective, that there was no further bleeding following the single intervention and no recurrence of pseudoaneurysm was observed in any of the patients.
The endovascular approach to pseudoaneurysm consists of either covered stent implantation or embolization. Endovascular graft exclusion with a covered stent may completely isolate the pseudoaneurysm immediately, prevent the rupture and bleeding of the pseudoaneurysm and reconstruct the parent artery without affecting the anatomical blood flow (30). This is suitable for pseudoaneurysm that has sentinel hemorrhage without rupture. However, a covered stent is usually not the first choice due to the risk involved and the technical difficulty of stenting in a visceral artery, in addition to the contraction of the parent artery caused by the use of vasoconstrictive drugs. Furthermore, economic and medical insurance factors are also reasons for its limited application. Therefore, endovascular embolization is widely used in clinical practice, including the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, as reported in the present and previous studies (31-34). For VAPA, due to the anastomosis of digestive arteries and abundant collateral circulation, liquid embolic materials should be carefully selected to prevent the occurrence of missed embolization, and solid embolic agents generally do not cause serious ischemia and necrosis (5). The present study demonstrated that coil embolization is a safe therapy for pseudoaneurysm and no serious complications were encountered.
The selection of embolization techniques is mainly based on the location, size and the neck of the pseudoaneurysm (35). At the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, if the pseudoaneurysm occurs at the main visceral artery and has a high risk of rupture, two-end embolization (isolation technique) is used, which entails embolization of the proximal and distal parent artery. In general, this technique is associated with less serious complications such as large-area organ necrosis and infection (31), and this was not observed among the patients included in the present study. According to our experience, if the GDA stump has a beak-like shape and the hepatic artery is not damaged, no further treatment is required. However, if the stump exhibits sac-like or bag-like structure, intervention is required to prevent rupture regardless, of its length. If the stump is long, the microcatheter may be inserted into the neck of the sac. In this way, embolization with microcoils does not affect the blood flow of the liver. If the stump is short or irregular, isolation embolization or stent-assisted coil embolization should be performed.
Embolization of VAPA may be technically challenging, as the visceral artery is frequently small in caliber due to the bleeding, decreased systemic blood pressure and the use of vasoconstrictive drugs. This may be improved by hemodynamic stabilization with volume replacement and discontinuation of vasoconstrictive drugs. A large-diameter coil may then be selected for embolization, as small-diameter coils used for embolization may migrate to the efferent artery to cause rebleeding. In the present study, distal coil migration occurred in one case. The present experience conforms to the principle of 120-150, according to which the ratio of the coil diameter to the diameter of the parent artery or pseudoaneurysm should be at least 1.2-1.5, which is similar to the ‘spaghetti technique’ (36).
For technical considerations of VAPA embolization, it may be recommended to construct the coil with a low packing density while ensuring it is stably located in the neck of the pseudoaneurysm. According to certain scholars, a solid embolic agent such as coils may increase the risk of aneurysmal rupture due to the weak sac and damaged arterial wall, so that the sac packing technique should be selected with caution (37), while other studies recommend the sandwich technique or covered stent implantation for pseudoaneurysm secondary to mechanically injured visceral arteries to avoid the potential risk of massive bleeding during the procedure (38,39), particularly among patients with pancreatic fistula after PD. In recent years liquid embolic materials have been used for pseudoaneurysms, but the risk of undesired ectopic embolization is higher than that of a coil. The combined use of the two materials may, however, bring a higher benefit (40,41).
There were certain limitations to the present study. First, it was a retrospective, observational study with no case-control cohort for comparative analysis to determine the true effectiveness and safety of endovascular embolization over the conventional surgical approach. In addition, the sample size was relatively small due to the rarity of VAPA. Of note, the nature of the patient's medical insurance, economical status and the preference of family members are important factors that influence the choice of treatment. Additionally, the majority of patients prefer the conventional approach in China (19,31).
In conclusion, the present study indicated that endovascular embolization is a safe and effective treatment for pseudoaneurysm in the abdomen and pelvis. Several techniques of embolization were presented and discussed. The endovascular approach to VAPA should be considered as a preferred treatment option in most cases.
Acknowledgements
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Funding
No funding was received.
Availability of data and materials
The datasets used and/or analyzed for the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Authors' contributions
HX and CJ made substantial contributions to the conception and design of the present study and wrote the original draft of the manuscript. JieZ, XM, JinZ, LY and YR were responsible for the data acquisition, the analysis and the interpretation. HX revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
The present study was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College (Nanchong, China). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
Patient consent for publication
Not applicable.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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