OBJECTIVE To evaluate the reasons for repeat intervention in patients treated with balloon expandable stents for pulmonary artery stenoses, with particular analysis of the time intervals between interventions. DESIGN A retrospective observational study. SETTING A single paediatric cardiology centre. PATIENTS 38 patients, mean age 6.9 years, range 6 days to 34 years (one adult patient); me...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The aim of this non-randomized study was to determine the role of photodynamic therapy (PDT) in a multimodal approach for the palliation of advanced esophageal carcinoma. METHODS Twenty consecutive patients with obstructing esophageal cancer were enrolled in this study. Each subject had dysphagia, and nine could not swallow fluid. External beam radiotherapy or a self-expandabl...

Self-expanding stents are relatively new in the field of urology and have primarily been used for permanent remodeling of benign or malignant stricture. We are presenting a rare and interesting case of a ureterocolic fistula that formed secondary to placement of an expandable, retrievable metal stent in the ureter. After multiple retrieval efforts, the self-expanding metal stent was finally ret...

AIM Placement of self-expandable metallic stent has been used for bridge to surgery in the treatment of colorectal obstruction. Our aim was to compare technical success and complication rates of covered and uncovered inserted stents in colorectal malignant obstruction patients. MATERIAL OF STUDY A series of 24 obstruction colorectal cancer patients were selected and included in the study for ...

Objective: Although conservative treatment is the first choice for high cervical internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis due to spontaneous cervical ICA dissection, surgical revascularization is necessary when the disease resists conservative treatment. Although such lesions are difficult to treat by conventional carotid endarterectomy (CEA) or carotid artery stenting (CAS), they may be treated ...

Abdominal aortic coarctation is an extremely rare vascular pathology. Its etiology can be congenital or acquired. Here we present a case of acquired infrarenal abdominal coarctation in a 66-year-old woman who complained of low back and legs pain. She had no signs of resting lower limb ischemia, with diminished distal pulses and normal blood pressure in upper and lower extremities. Magnetic reso...

Twenty patients with chronic pancreatitis and signs of biliary obstruction were treated by endoscopic placement of self expandable metal mesh stents, and followed up prospectively. Eleven had been treated previously with plastic endoprostheses. All had persistent cholestasis, seven patients had jaundice, and three overt cholangitis. Endoscopic stent placement was successful in all cases. No ear...

Objective: To evaluate the reasons for repeat intervention in patients treated with balloon expandable stents for pulmonary artery stenoses, with particular analysis of the time intervals between interventions. Design: A retrospective observational study. Setting: A single paediatric cardiology centre. Patients: 38 patients, mean age 6.9 years, range 6 days to 34 years (one adult patient); mean...

PURPOSE Arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) are created in patients to enable a permanent vascular access for hemodialysis. The AVF causes changes in the hemodynamic conditions leading to possible complications, stenoses being the most common one. Our objective was to compare the effect of treating the stenosed AVF by balloon-angioplasty, whether followed or not with stenting. METHODS We considered...