awareness of the presence of the accessory renal artery in kidney transplant, treatment of renal artery stenosis, clinical assessment of renal vascular hypertension, radiology and angiography interventions is very helpful. in 30% of cases the accessory renal artery is separated from the abdominal aorta and in most cases, this artery along with the main artery entered to the kidney through the h...

BACKGROUND A 3 Tesla (3 T) magnetic resonance (MR) scanner is a promising tool for upper abdominal angiography. However, no report has focused on the contrast behavior of non-contrast-enhanced hepatic MR arteriography at 3 T. PURPOSE To establish the optimal inversion time (TI) for favorable selective visualization of the hepatic arteries on non-contrast-enhanced MR arteriography with time sp...

objectives this study compared the effects of peer education and an orientation tour on anxiety in patients who were candidates for coronary artery angiography. patients and methods this single blind quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2014. a total of 177 patients who were candidates for coronary artery angiography were divided into three groups: a peer education group, an orientation to...

quired as a result of trauma, including a liver biopsy, or in association with hepatic tumors and ruptured aneurysms of the hepatic artery (1). A congenital hepatoportal arteriovenous fistula is extremely rare and there are very few reports. The common clinical manifestations are the features of portal hypertension such as bowel congestion, gastrointestinal bleeding, malabsorption, ascites and ...

INTRODUCTION True hepatic artery aneurysms (HAAs) are rare, and when complicated by gastrointestinal haemorrhage, it becomes an even rarer disease entity. The mortality is high and imaging may fail to provide the diagnosis. We present a case of a true hepatic artery aneurysm complicated by a fistula to the duodenum which was first recognised during surgery. PRESENTATION OF CASE A 77-year-old ...

Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) is one of the approaches used to treat advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Here, we describe 2 cases involving unexpected tumor necrosis after interventional alteration of the hepatic arterial flow during implantation of a port-catheter system for HAIC. Case 1 involved a 42-year-old man with diffuse HCC accompanied by a tumor thrombus in the ma...

BACKGROUND To retrospectively analyze the outcomes of interventional radiology treatment of patients with hepatic artery stenosis (HAS) after liver transplantation at our Institution. MATERIAL/METHODS Hepatic artery stenosis was diagnosed and treated by endovascular technique in 8 (2.8%) patients, who underwent liver transplantation between July 2007 and July 2011. Patients entered the follow...

PURPOSE Human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has unique vascular features, which require selective imaging of hepatic arterial perfusion and portal venous perfusion with vascular catheterization for sufficient evaluation. Unlike in humans, vessels in mice are too small to catheterize, and the importance of separately imaging the feeding vessels of tumors is frequently overlooked in hepatic tumo...