A large portosystemic shunt between the inferior mesenteric vein and the right internal iliac vein in a 28-yr-old non-cirrhotic man is presented. This collateral was discovered by ultrasound done as a screening examination for gastrointestinal bleeding. The direct communication of the inferior mesenteric vein with the internal iliac vein was demonstrated by computed tomography and percutaneous transhepatic portography. Surgical ligation of the collateral, performed to prevent future portosystemic encephalopathy, resulted in reduction of serum ammonia level and cessation of long-standing hemorrhoidal bleeding.
We formulated a new lipiodol-Adriamycin suspension (ADM/lipiodol, 50 mg/10 ml) that remained stable for 48 h (half-life, 25 +/- 3 days). In five cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) resected after intra-arterial infusion of this agent, the ADM concentration in the tumor was quite high and the tumor necrosis rate was more than 80% on histological examination. Over a 5-year period, 180 patients with unresectable HCC underwent transcatheter arterial embolization therapy (TAE) in the presence or absence of this agent. The regimens consisted of suspension injection alone (A, n = 54), suspension injection + TAE using gelatin sponge (B, n = 29), TAE followed by suspension injection (C, n = 34), and TAE alone (D, n = 63). The estimated 1-year survival values determined for patients treated with these regimens were 70%, 73%, 43%, and 39% respectively, and the corresponding 3-year survival values were 27%, 31%, 15%, and 10%. The survival achieved using suspension injection was thus superior to that obtained using conventional TAE, and combined therapy with suspension injection followed by TAE seemed to enhance survival, although there were some biases in tumor size and in the stage of tumor progression. For patients with tumors measuring 5 cm or more in diameter, the survival obtained using regimen A was lower than that achieved using regimen D, but the combination of TAE and suspension injection improved the 1-year survival value obtained using regimen D from 34% to 52%. For patients with tumors measuring less than 5 cm in diameter, the survival achieved using regimen A was markedly better than that obtained using regimen D, although no difference was found between the survival value achieved using regimen A and that obtained using regimens B and C. On the basis of these results, our newly formulated ADM-lipiodol suspension was surmised to be effective by itself against relatively small HCC tumors, whereas it enhanced the efficacy of conventional TAE in large lesions.
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