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Transcatheter arterial embolization is becoming the therapy of choice for controlling obstetric hemorrhage, affording the ability to control persistent bleeding from pelvic vessels while avoiding the morbidity of surgical exploration. The clinicians are left with little choice if pelvic hemorrhage continues after hysterectomy and ligation of anterior division of both internal iliac arteries. We present one such case of intractable post-obstetric hysterectomy hemorrhage in which an ovarian artery pseudoaneurysm was diagnosed angiographically and sucesssfully embolized, highlighting the role of transcatheter embolization.
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Rathod, K., Deshmukh, H., Asrani, A. et al. Successful Embolization of an Ovarian Artery Pseudoaneurysm Complicating Obstetric Hysterectomy. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 28, 113–116 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-004-0259-2
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