A 73-year-old woman was referred to our department due to mild breathlessness on exertion. She denied chest pains but occasionally had palpitations, which were not troublesome. She did not complain of fluid retention and nor did she have orthopnoea or paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea. Her previous medical history included abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair 15 years ago for infra renal aneurysm...

The interventionist needs precise information about the tissue supplied by an artery that is to be embolized. With intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), Amytal* can be used to challenge cerebral arteries and their branches [1]. Cranial nerves are physiologically and histologically like peripheral nerves, so external carotid artery branch embolization can be controlled by challenge wi...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to assess the risk of systemic embolization in patients with left-sided infective endocarditis, once adequate antibiotic treatment had been initiated, on the basis of prospective clinical follow-up. BACKGROUND As one of the complications of infective endocarditis, embolization has a great impact on prognosis. Prediction of an individual patient's risk of emb...

The search for embolic sources has high priority in patients presenting with suspected cerebral embolism. Non-invasive cardiovascular ultrasound is frequently used to reveal the presence of carotid stenosis and cardiac disorders with embolic potential. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) provides images of aortic atherosclerosis, shown to be associated with increased risk of stroke. Some gui...

The Thrombotic Process and Its Complications Thrombi are composed of fibrin and blood cells and may form in any part of the cardiovascular system, including the veins, arteries, heart, and microcirculation. Because the relative proportions of cells and fibrin depend on hemodynamic factors, they differ in arterial and venous thrombi.12 Arterial thrombi form under conditions of high flow and are ...

PURPOSE When abdominal aortic aneurysms and common iliac artery (CIA) aneurysms undergo concomitant endovascular repair, endograft limb extension into the external iliac artery is often necessary. Usually, the internal iliac artery (IIA) is coil embolized in such a case to prevent endoleak. It has been our practice to coil embolize the IIA only in cases where there is not adequate stent graft s...

part of the body to the innominate bones. The sacrum also conducts the sacral nerve roots to the pelvic organs. Each innominate bone is a fusion of the ilium, ischium, and pubic bones. The intersection of the fusion forms the acetabulum, which articulates with the femur. Posteriorly, the innominate bones are anchored to the sacrum by the anterior and posterior iliac ligaments, two of the body’s...

Epidemiology (CDC, Beckman, Am J Prev Med, 2010) ●Includes deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) and affects more than 300,000 to 600,000 patients annually with 60,000-100,000 deaths (some estimates as high as 300,000); AHRQ estimates 2 million affected per year and 200,000 deaths; 50% develop during admission or within 30 days after hospitalization ●PE remains most common pr...

_____________ _ The increasing use of membrane oxygenators and collapsable venous reservoir bags (VRB) imposes a concern not associated with bubble oxygenators: Venous line air. Since no defoamer is present, a VRB must rely on flow characteristics or a barrier to remove air from the venous return. The purpose of this study is to determine the air removal efficiency of seven commercially availab...

background: the transcatheter closure of the atrial septal defect (asd) has become an alternative technique to surgical procedures . the aim of this study was to assess the immediate, short, and intermediate-term results of the transcatheter closure of the secundum asd with the amplatzer septal occluder (aso) in adult iranian patients. methods: between december 2004 and july 2008, the transcath...