This article considers the case of a 49-year-old woman with a history of hepatitis C and peptic ulcer disease who presented with massive hematemesis. She was diagnosed with gastric variceal hemorrhage and splenic vein thrombosis. The patient underwent splenic artery embolization and balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration of gastric varices. By 30 months post-treatment no evidence of gastric varices or splenic vein thrombosis remained.
- Vanessa Tieu
- George Behrens
- Joseph Ahn
