Juxtahepatic venous injuries are not AAST Grade V injuries if there is no contrast extravasation

Juxtahepatic venous injuries are not AAST Grade V injuries if there is no contrast extravasation

Background: The organ injury scale (OIS) for liver trauma by the American Association of the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) was last updated in 2018 with new “imaging criteria” that continued to grade juxtahepatic venous (JHV) injuries, regardless of presence or absence of active bleeding, as Grade V. We...

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Main Authors: Vijayan Purushothaman, Kirthi Sathyakumar, Vignesh Kumar, Srujan Lam Sharma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2024-12-01
Series:Journal of Current Research in Scientific Medicine
Subjects:
contrast extravasation
juxtavenous hepatic injuries
severe liver injury
Online Access:https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jcrsm.jcrsm_23_24
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