Table 1.
Methodologies used for studies
| First author, year published | Ref | Country | Years of recruitment | Study design | Etiology of bleeding | Patients (n)
|
TAE
|
Surgery
|
Quality assessment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAE | Surgery | Technique | Procedures | |||||||
| Ang, 2012 | 29 | Singapore | 2004–2010 | Single center, retrospective, cohort | All etiologies | 30 | 63 | Gelfoam® particles (n=11) Platinum microcoils (n=7) Sandwich technique (n=12) |
Total gastrectomy (n=2) Subtotal gastrectomy (n=14) Truncal vagotomy and pyloroplasty (n=10) Truncal vagotomy and gastrojejunostomy (n=3) Bilroth II gastrectomy (n=17) Underrunning of ulcer (n=17) |
Adequate |
| Defreyne, 2008 | 15 | Belgium | 1993–2003 | Single center, retrospective, cohort | All etiologies | 46 | 51 | Platinum coils (n=5) Gelfoam particles (n=6) Cyanoacrylate (n=5) Polyvinyl alcohol particles (n=2) Combination of above (n=10) |
Underrunning of ulcer (n=36) GDA ligation (n=4) Excision of ulcer (n=2) Underrunning of dieulafoy lesion (n=1) Excision of polyp (n=1) Gastrectomy (n=1) |
Adequate |
| Eriksson, 2008 | 16 | Sweden | 1998–2005 | Single center, retrospective, cohort | All etiologies | 40 | 51 | Stainless steel macrocoils | Gastrectomy (n=29) Underrunning of ulcer (n=14) Total gastrectomy (n=6) Laparotomy (n=1) Small bowel resection (n=1) |
Adequate |
| Jairath, 2012 | 13 | UK | 2007 | Multicenter, prospective, cohort | All etiologies | 60 | 97 | No data | Underrunning of ulcer (n=67) Excision of ulcer (n=3) Excision of ulcer with vagotomy/pyloroplasty (n=2) Partial gastrectomy (n=9) Other (n=16) |
Adequate |
| Langner, 2008 | 30 | Germany | 2000–2006 | Single center, retrospective, cohort | All etiologies | 11 | 12 | Microcoils | Suture ligation | Adequate |
| Larssen, 2008 | 31 | Norway | 2000–2005 | Single center, retrospective, cohort | Duodenal ulcers | 36 | 10 | Stainless steel macrocoils ± Gelfoam | Gastrectomy (n=7) Underrunning of ulcer (n=3) |
Adequate |
| Ripoll, 2004 | 14 | Spain | 1986–2001 | Single center, retrospective, cohort | Duodenal and gastric ulcers | 31 | 39 | Stainless steel macrocoils ± Gelfoam | Truncal vagotomy with pyloroplasty and oversewing Truncal vagotomy with distal gastrectomy |
Adequate |
| Venclauskas, 2010 | 32 | Sweden | 2000–2007 | Single center, retrospective, cohort | Duodenal ulcers | 24 | 50 | Cyanoacrylate (n=2) Polyvinyl alcohol (n=6) Coils (n=12) |
Underrunning of ulcer, with (n=8) or without (n=10) Ligation of the GDA Gastrectomy (n=34) |
Adequate |
| Wong, 2011 | 33 | Hong Kong | 2000–2009 | Single center, retrospective, cohort | Duodenal and gastric ulcers | 32 | 56 | Fibered platinum coil | Ulcer placation or excision (n=38) Partial gastrectomy (n=10) Vagotomy and gastrojejunostomy or pyloroplasty (n=7) Total gastrectomy (n=1) |
Adequate |
Abbreviations: GDA, gastroduodenal artery; TAE, transarterial embolization.