Treatment of heavy epistaxis by intraarterial embolisation
Bohutová, J.; Kolár, J.; Olejnícek, A.
Der Radiologe 21(2): 81-83
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-832X PMID: 7208904 Document Number: 178092
Therapeutic intraarterial embolisation is a modern and effective approach in the therapy of otherwise untreatable heavy epistaxis. The most important indications for it were in the clinical survey reported here, bleedings after trauma and in arterial hypertension and/or generalised atherosclerosis. Several examples are documented. Therapeutic embolisation in this area necessitates a precise technique because in even small faults serious, mainly neurological complications may arise. For these reasons, this intervention is suitable for specialised laboratories only.