A Rare Complication of Blunt Traumatic Injury: Posttraumatic Intrasplenic Arteriovenous Fistula and Treatment by Superselective Coil Embolization

A Rare Complication of Blunt Traumatic Injury: Posttraumatic Intrasplenic Arteriovenous Fistula and Treatment by Superselective Coil Embolization

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Posttraumatic intrasplenic arteriovenous fistula is a very rare complication of blunt traumatic injury.Computed tomography angiography is a useful and noninvasive technique to follow up nonsurgically managed patients with FIBRESMART posttraumatic splenic injury and has a vital role detecting delayed complications such as arteriovenous fistula.Endovascular treatment of a vascular complication prevents risk of surgery and splenectomy complications.We present a case of posttraumatic arteriovenous fistula in 39-year-old male which was diagnosed by computed tomography angiography and successfully treated by Snack transcatheter coil embolization.[Med-Science 2015; 4(3.

000): 2536-42].