{"title":"Lymphangiography as a Treatment for Refractory Congenital Chylothorax Due to RASopathies: A Report of Two Cases.","authors":"Naoya Kinota, Hiroshi Kodama, Taiki Moriyama, Junichi Taniguchi, Mitsunari Maruyama, Atsushi Ogasawara, Yasukazu Kako, Kaoru Kobayashi, Haruyuki Takaki, Akio Shibata, Kyoko Minagawa, Yasuhiro Takeshima, Koichiro Yamakado","doi":"10.22575/interventionalradiology.2021-0014","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study, we report two cases in which intranodal lymphangiography helped improve congenital chylothorax due to RASopathies. We performed lymphangiography after conservative treatments failed to improve chylothorax in an 8-year-old girl with cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome and a 2-month-old boy with Noonan syndrome. Inguinal lymph nodes were punctured with 25-gauge needles under ultrasonographic guidance, and 4 and 1 mL of iodized oil were injected, respectively, showing a backflow of iodized oil into the lungs. Chylothorax had improved in both patients after nodal lymphangiography. However, the second child experienced worsening of disease-associated extremity edema and died of sepsis 4 months later.</p>","PeriodicalId":73503,"journal":{"name":"Interventional radiology (Higashimatsuyama-shi (Japan)","volume":"7 1","pages":"17-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/ed/83/2432-0935-7-1-0017.PMC9327383.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Interventional radiology (Higashimatsuyama-shi (Japan)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22575/interventionalradiology.2021-0014","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/3/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this study, we report two cases in which intranodal lymphangiography helped improve congenital chylothorax due to RASopathies. We performed lymphangiography after conservative treatments failed to improve chylothorax in an 8-year-old girl with cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome and a 2-month-old boy with Noonan syndrome. Inguinal lymph nodes were punctured with 25-gauge needles under ultrasonographic guidance, and 4 and 1 mL of iodized oil were injected, respectively, showing a backflow of iodized oil into the lungs. Chylothorax had improved in both patients after nodal lymphangiography. However, the second child experienced worsening of disease-associated extremity edema and died of sepsis 4 months later.