The results were compared to those of a control group of 16 outpatients who did not undergo
left gastric artery embolisation but had CT scans at two different time periods for nonspecific abdominal pain.
Pancreatitis, peptic ulcer, and vasculitis have been reported in the etiology of
left gastric artery aneurysms (2, 9).
1: celiac trunk, 2: common hepatic artery, 3: splenic artery, 4:
left gastric artery, 5: accessory
left gastric artery, 6: posterior gastric artery, 7: left gastroepiploic artery 8: splenic vein, 9: spleen, 10: pancreas, 11: caudate lobe of the liver, and 12: stomach.
The length of the coeliac trunk was concise, or it can be considered as the hepatic proper and the
left gastric artery bifurcating from the coeliac trunk.
Compared with those who had embolisation of a different artery, patients who had their
left gastric artery blocked dropped from an average weight of 189.1 to 174.5 pounds, a 7.9% decrease in body weight.
The reason for the predominance of location at this site is that the submucosal arteries in the lesser curvature are direct branches of the
left gastric artery, whereas in the rest of the stomach, the submucosal vessels are of much smaller caliber because of their serial branching.
2), which revealed a pseudo-aneurysm off a branch of the
left gastric artery (LGA).
3) The left and right branches of the hepatic artery proper are anastomosed, any of these branches with an accessory artery that may reach to get anastomosed, either branch of the
left gastric artery or the superior mesenteric artery or some other variant.
In response to the growing obesity epidemic,
left gastric artery (LGA) embolization has evolved as a promising procedure for weight loss therapy (4, 5).
Bacuzzi et al., "Endovascular retreatment of a splenic artery aneurysm refilled by collateral branches of the
left gastric artery: A case report," Journal of Medical Case Reports, vol.
Lymph node stations (Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma) No Definition 1 Right paracardial LNs, including those along the 1st branch of the ascending limb of the
left gastric artery 2 Left paracardial LNs, including those along the oesophagocardiac branch of the left subphrenic artery 3a Lesser curvature LNs along the branches of the
left gastric artery 3b Lesser curvature LNs along the 2nd branch and distal part of the right gastric artery 4sa Left greater curvature LNs along the short gastric arteries (perigastric area) 4sb Left greater curvature LNs along the left gastroepiploic artery (perigastric area) 4d Rt.
The classic branching pattern in which the
left gastric artery originates as the first branch and the coeliac trunk divides into common hepatic and splenic arteries.