Angiographic evaluation and management of acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage

Figure 14 Vasopressin infusion therapy for lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage. A: Inferior mesenteric digital subtraction angiography arteriogram shows contrast extravasation (black arrow) in the rectosigmoid colon, arising from a branch of the superior hemorrhoidal artery (white arrow); B: Following transcatheter arterial vasopressin infusion, there is no longer any evidence of active bleeding from the superior hemorrhoidal (white arrow) arterial distribution.