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Table 2 Patients who experienced complications and/or underwent splenectomy after SAE

From: SPLEnic salvage and complications after splenic artery EmbolizatioN for blunt abdomINal trauma: the SPLEEN-IN study

Patient number

Age

Gender

ISS

AAST injury grade

Vascular lesion on CT?

Vascular lesion on angiogram?

Location of embolization

Type of embolic used

CIRSE complication status (Filippiados et al. 2017)

Complication type

Splenectomy required

Days to splenectomy after trauma

1

17

Male

16

4

No

Yes

Proximal

Pushable coils

2

Infarction

No

N/A

2

22

Female

33

4

Yes

Yes

Proximal

Plug (AVP IV)

2

Infarction

No

N/A

3

48

Male

17

4

Yes

No

Proximal

Pushable coils

3

Re-bleed

No

N/A

4

30

Male

38

5

Yes

Yes

Proximal

Plug (AVP IV)

N/Aa

N/Aa

Yes

0

5

55

Male

29

5

Yes

Yes

Proximal

Plug (AVP IV)

3

Re-bleed

No

N/A

6

54

Female

41

5

Yes

Yes

Tandem

Pushable coils and gelfoam

3

Re-bleed

No

N/A

7

29

Male

21

5

Yes

Yes

Proximal

Pushable coils

4

Re-bleed

Yes

0

8

89

Male

10

4

Yes

Yes

Proximal

Pushable coils

1

Groin hematoma

No

N/A

9

48

Female

34

5

No

Yes

Proximal

Pushable coils

4

Re-bleed

Yes

4

10

31

Male

34

5

No

Yes

Proximal

Pushable coils

4

Re-bleed

Yes

5

11

37

Female

57

4

No

Yes

Proximal

Plug (Eos)

4

Re-bleed

Yes

10

12

78

Male

20

4

No

No

Proximal

Pushable coils

4

Re-bleed

Yes

17

13

53

Male

20

5

Yes

Yes

Proximal

Pushable coils

4

Re-bleed

Yes

3

14

38

Female

16

5

Yes

Yes

Proximal

Pushable coils

2

Infarction

No

N/A

  1. ISS injury severity score
  2. AAST American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
  3. apatient 4 underwent planned splenectomy after pelvic embolization and the spleen was embolized pre-operatively. This was not considered a complication of embolization