摘要
BACKGROUND Pancreatic pseudocyst may cause serious gastrointestinal complications including necrosis,infection,and perforation of the gastrointestinal tract wall,but massive gastric bleeding is very rare.CASE We report a rare case of a 49-year-old man with life-threatening gastric bleeding from a pseudoaneurysm of the splenic artery perforating the stomach induced by pancreatic pseudocyst.During hospitalization,gastroscopy revealed a bare blood vessel in an ulcer-like depression of the greater gastric curvature,and computed tomography scan confirmed a pancreatic pseudocyst invading part of the spleen and gastric wall of the greater curvature.Arteriography showed that the bare blood vessel originated from a pseudoaneurysm of the splenic artery.The bleeding was controlled by the trans-arterial embolization,the patient’s recovery was rapid and uneventful.CONCLUSION Massive gastrointestinal bleeding could be a rare complication of pancreatic pseudo aneurysm.
基金
The National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81660412(to Rui Xie).