Pulmonary embolism after sclerotherapy treatment for variceal bleeding

Foam sclerotherapy using polidocanol for balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO)

“…Until now, very few severe systemic complications have been reported, including cardiac complications, neurologic deficits, pulmonary embolism, and stroke [46,[49][50][51][52][53]. In our study, one patient (patient 1) experienced a complication.…”