The successful use of autologous skin to management may provide a useful and widely applicable method for dealing with the troublesome complication of guidewire-induced coronary perforation.

Minimally invasive radiologic–endoscopic recanalization or reconstruction of the common bile duct (CBD) for benign complete stenosis or complex iatrogenic lesions is routinely practiced at some tertiary centers [1,2]. Various techniques have been reported, including endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided insertion of a magnet through a previous choledochoduodenostomy [1–4]. A 38-year-oldwomanwhohad...

We thank Drs. Gawda and Czarnik for their comments [1] regarding our article on ultrasound (US)-guided central venous catheter (CVC) placement [2]. We recommended a “six-step-approach”. Because US is still used infrequently for CVC insertion [3, 4] we aimed to provide a basic, pragmatic, and evidence-based concept applicable in clinical routine rather than making the approach unnecessarily comp...

Abstract Background Guidewire fracture and loss is a rare but well known feared complication of percutaneous coronary interventions. With the increasing number complex interventions procedures for chronic total occlusions, operators face new challenges boundaries, need solutions to otherwise complications increasing. Case summary We have developed simple practical method retrieving fractured lo...

OBJECTIVES A clinically relevant reconstruction of the ethmoid infundibulum and maxillary sinus ostium was developed to use 3-dimensional computed tomographic (CT) imaging technology and measurement software in an effort to better understand the anatomy of the maxillary sinus ostium and to optimize the maxillary sinus balloon dilation technique. METHODS A retrospective review was performed of...

BACKGROUND Computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) has been successfully integrated with the magnetic navigation system (MNS) to facilitate a roadmap-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The aim of this study was to compare this new approach of PCI versus conventional PCI regarding the difference of contrast usage, x-ray exposure, procedure success, and in-hospital expense...

A 64-year-old man who underwent distal gastrectomy with Billroth II reconstruction for duodenal ulcer perforation was hospitalized for painful chronic pancreatitis. The recurrent pain was caused by calculous obstruction of the pancreatic duct, resulting in upstream ductal hypertension. Computed tomography showed stones and a dilated main pancreatic duct (MPD) (▶Fig. 1). We performed endoscopic ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy, safety and primary follow-up results of a guidewire looping technique for the treatment of infrapopliteal arteries. MATERIALS AND METHODS From October 2006 to May 2008, an intraluminal angioplasty of the infrapopliteal arteries was attempted in 200 consecutive patients. Altogether, 417 infrapopliteal lesions, with lengths varying from 2 cm to 32 cm, were t...