Angiographic management of the left hepatic artery disruption following motor vehicle accident

Abstract

Trauma is a leading cause of death in younger individuals. Blunt abdominal trauma has the potential to mask severe injuries—there can be serious organ or vascular injury underneath intact skin. Increasingly, there is a trend toward nonoperative management of blunt abdominal trauma. We report the case of a left hepatic artery transection managed in the interventional radiology suite.

Traumatic bruising of the hepatoduodenal ligament can conceal a catastrophic injury to the hepatic artery

“…A review of the literature for cases or series of traumatic hepatic artery injuries in the last 30 years was performed 16–28. The results are summarised in table 1.…”