ArticleCardiovascular and interventional radiology2025
Safety and Clinical Outcome of Bleomycin-Electrosclerotherapy (BEST) Treating Lymphatic Malformations (LMs).
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Electrochemotherapy in pediatrics: a systematic review.European radiology · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness and Safety of Bleomycin Electrosclerotherapy for Slow-Flow Vascular Malformations: A Systematic Review.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2026Pooled it
- Bleomycin ElectroScleroTherapy (BEST): mechanistic parallels to electrochemotherapy, experimental models, and unresolved questions.Radiology and oncology · 2026Review
- Electrochemotherapy in the Management of Vascular Malformations: An Updated Systematic Review.Clinics and practice · 2025Review
- Bleomycin-Electrosclerotherapy in the treatment of superficial slow-flow vascular malformations of head and neck.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
introductionBleomycin-electrosclerotherapy (BEST) is a novel treatment for slow-flow vascular malformations (SFVMs), most studied in venous malformations. This study specifically evaluated its safety and clinical outcome in lymphatic/lymphatic-dominant lympho-venous malformations (LMs/ld-LVMs). MATERIALS AND
methodsA monocentric cohort with symptomatic LMs or ld-LVMs treated by BEST was retrospectively assessed. A treatment-specific, patient-reported questionnaire assessed overall clinical response (complete response: symptom-free, partial response: improved symptoms, no response: unchanged symptoms, progression of symptoms), subjective health-related quality of life (QoL; optimal, improved, unchanged, worsening), pain (numerical rating scale, NRS), and postprocedural skin discolouration (yes/no). Pre and postprocedural lesion size was measured in three planes on MRI.
resultsTwenty-seven treatments were performed in 20 patients with 14 LMs and six ld-LVMs (11 microcystic, five mixed, and four macrocystic subtypes). Patients received 1.4 ± 0.6 treatments with a median bleomycin dose of 7 mg (range 2-15 mg). After BEST, 7/20 (35%) patients reported complete response, 10/20 (50%) partial response, and 3/20 (15%) no response. Health-related QoL was stated as optimal in 10/20 (50%) and as improved in 4/20 (20%) patients. Median pain NRS was reduced from 6 (3-10) to 2 (0-6). Postprocedural skin discolouration occurred in 11/20 (55%) patients. Follow-up MR imaging revealed lesion size reduction from mean maximum volume of 793 cm
conclusionBEST demonstrates efficacy and acceptable safety treating LMs and ld-LVMs, including challenging microcystic lesions previously considered difficult to treat. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 3b, Retrospective Cohort Study.
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