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  • Title: [Ruptured pseudoaneurysm of the splenic artery. A complication of chronic pancreatitis].
    Author: Kuhn R, Janocha F, Lazar A, Rambach W, Paquet KJ.
    Journal: Dtsch Med Wochenschr; 1996 Dec 13; 121(50):1567-70. PubMed ID: 8998929.
    Abstract:
    HISTORY AND FINDINGS: A pale looking 33-year-old man with a history of perforated gastric ulcer and pancreatitis with surgically drained pseudocyst was admitted because of painless anal bleeding. Heart rate was 100/min, blood pressure 90/60 mm Hg. INVESTIGATIONS: Haemoglobin concentration (6.3 g/dl) and RBC count (2.4 mill./microliters) indicated anaemia due to bleeding. Sonography and computed tomography demonstrated chronic calcifying pancreatitis and thrombosis of splenic and mesenteric veins. There were grade 1 oesophageal varices on endoscopy. The source of bleeding was found by coloscopy to be a submucous pulsating tumour in the region of the left flexure, which on angiography was an aneurysm of the splenic artery. TREATMENT AND COURSE: The pseudoaneurysm of the splenic artery, which had perforated into the colon, was resected together with a partial pancreas excision and splenectomy. There were no complications and the patient was discharged symptom-free after 15 days, and there had been no further bleeding 6 months later. CONCLUSION: Pseudoaneurysm of a visceral artery is a rare, but life-threatening, complication of pancreatitis. Treatment options are operation and/or interventional catheter embolisation.
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