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It was reported that during the 53rd annual meeting of the japanese society of interventional radiology, the session chair reviewed case reports of pulmonary embolism with the use of cryoablation.Case review of retrospective study from (b)(6) 2022 to (b)(6) 2023, 71 patients (50 males, 21 females, aged 23-88, average 66 years) with 77 tumors who underwent cryoablation for renal cancer at our hospital were included in this study.Pulmonary thromboembolism was observed on contrast-enhanced ct in 10.4% (8/77) of the cases 1-3 days after cryoablation therapy, all of which were asymptomatic.Six cases were treated with oral edoxaban, one case with oral aspirin, and one case was monitored without medication.Follow-up contrast-enhanced ct at one month showed that the thrombus had disappeared in seven cases, but the case treated with aspirin could not be evaluated as the chest was outside the imaging range.May 25, 2024 (saturday) 13:20 - 14:15 venue 6 general presentation of renal cryotherapy chair: haruyuki takagi, department of radiology, hyogo medical university, takao hiraki, radiology, okayama university graduate school of medicine, dentistry and pharmaceutical sciences.Abstract p268, o-167.Retrospective study on the incidence of pulmonary thromboembolism after cryoablation for renal cancer.Koji tomita1, yusuke matsui2, mayu uga1, noriyuki umakoshi1, takahiro kawabata1, toshihiro ikuchi3, takao hiraki2, 1 department of radiology, okayama university hospital, 2 radiology, okayama university graduate school of medicine, dentistry and pharmaceutical sciences, 3 okayama university graduate school of health sciences.
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