Fig 1.
A total of ten patients were excluded. 75 patients were included in the final data analysis. Of these 75 patients a total of 60 patients had complete laboratory data during the 30-days follow up. 15 patients missing data but could be included into the linear mixed model regression analysis. SAS, Splenic Artery Steal Syndrome; SA, Splenic Artery; OLT, Orthotopic Liver Transplantation.
Fig 2.
A-C. Pre-intervention celiac angiography shows hampered hepatic arterial flow with delayed contrast filling of the hepatic artery (blue arrows) as well as early and strong contrast filling of the enlarged splenic artery. B-D. Post-interventional celiac angiography shows significantly improved hepatic arterial flow and delayed contrast filling of the splenic artery. B. shows embolization of the SA using an Amplatzer venous plug (red marker), D. shows an embolization using coils (green marker).
Table 1.
Patient characteristics.
Fig 3.
Boxplots showing the development of median laboratory values over time stratified regarding the site of embolization.
GGT, gamma-glutamyl transferase, GPT, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase; GOT, glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase; ALP, Alkaline Phosphatase; PT, Prothrombin Time using International Normalized Ratio (INR).
Fig 4.
Median values as well as pairwise comparisons differentiated after location of embolization of the SA.
* The mean difference is significant at the .05 level. IQR, interquartile range; SA, splenic artery; CI, confidence interval; GGT, gamma-glutamyl transferase, GPT, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase; GOT, glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase; ALP, Alkaline Phosphatase; PT, Prothrombin Time. Forest plot analysis of the log-transformed standardized mean difference (SMD) for pairwise comparison.