A CASE OF HEMORRHAGIC GASTRIC ULCER WITH LEFT GASTRIC ANEURYSM

Abstract

This is a case report of a 77-year-old male with giant gastric ulcer, at the bottom of which there was a large exposed vessel with the arterial beat. As a possibility of inducing the bleeding by the endoscopic hemostasis, we performed abdominal angiography. It showed an aneurysm at the parietal branch of left gastric artery and transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) was carried out and achieved complete hemostasis. Although hemorrhagic gastric ulcers with aneurysm are rare, their hemostasis seemed to be difficult and TAE may prove to be a useful method in the treatment of these ulcers.