Role of interventional radiology in the management of acute gastrointestinal bleeding

Figure 3 Lower gastrointestinal bleed secondary to diverticulitis. Sixty-eight-year-old male with history of esophageal carcinoma with acute diverticulitis with drifting hematocrit. A: Tc-99m labeled red blood cell study demonstrates bleeding at the hepatic flexure of the colon; B: Selective catheter angiography at the middle colic artery demonstrates active extravasation into a diverticulum present at the hepatic flexure the colon; C: Coil embolization of the right lateral aspect of the middle colic artery, across a small perforating vessel associated with a diverticular hemorrhage.