A case report of successful endovascular treatment of "sentinel bleeding" in patient with adverse anatomy

Abstract

Surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer, has a high risk of postoperative complications (up to 30-70%) due to its difficulty, one of such undesirable outcomes is bleeding (up to 10% of all post PDE complication. Since 1991, a non-fatal gastrointestinal bleeding or bleeding through drainage that follows PDE, is called - “sentinel bleeding”; and it is a predictor of further massive fatal bleeding