background: percutaneous nephrolithotomy (pcnl) for renal calculi is less invasive treatment than open surgery. vascular complications of this procedure include hematoma, pseudoaneurysm and arteriovenous fistula of which pseudoaneurysm is usually symptomatic 24h after procedure. case report : we report a case of pseudoaneurysm, which was symptomatic within less than 24h following procedure and ...

Periprocedural care of patients who undergo image-guided interventions is a task of monumental importance. As physicians who perform procedures, radiologists rely on their noninterpretive skills to optimize patient care. At the center of periprocedural care is proper patient identification. It is imperative to perform the indicated procedure for the correct patient. It is also of great importan...

BACKGROUND Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) is useful in the diagnosis and evaluation of dyspepsia. We investigated factors that might be associated with self-reported patient tolerance of EGD and therefore might serve as objective, reliable and useful surrogates for self-reported patient tolerance. We also investigated factors that might influence EGD tolerance. STUDY We prospectively evalua...

conclusions the effective annual dose of interventionists who work in center 1 and 2 was 143.08 and 1226.78 msv respectively. the high radiation dose which delivers to the leg of physicians in center 2 can be an important cause of radiation dermatitis occurred on the leg of our interventionist. patient dose during most of the procedures was less than the threshold dose for occurring erythema bu...

iatrogenic dissections of the ascending aorta are an uncommon and severe complication during cardiac catheterization. a 68-year-old female patient underwent diagnostic cardiac catheterization due to non-st-elevation myocardial infarction. during the procedure, a catheter-induced 360 • class i dissection of the right coronary artery occurred. the patient developed severe bradycardia, which was t...

congenital fusion of the maxilla and the mandible is a rare condition. the extent of the problem ranges from simple mucosal adhesion (synechia) to severe bony fusion (syngnathia). here we present a patient with zygomatico-mandibular fusion who was treated at neonatal and infancy periods at three different stages without tracheostomy. having had recurrence for two times, porcine grafting was per...

background: t ranscatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus (pda) has become an alternative treatment to surgery. we evaluated the long-term results of the transcatheter closure of pda with the amplatzer duct occluder (ado) in children. methods: between may 2004 and october 2012, 138 children with pda (43 males and 95 females) underwent transcatheter pda closure. clinical, electrocardiograph...

this is the first report implementing combined density gradient centrifugation/zeta (dgc/zeta) sperm selection procedure for a couple with eleven previous intra cytoplasmic sperm injection/ in vitro fertilization (icsi/ivf) failure cycles. semen analysis was carried out according to world health organization criteria. protamine deficiency, dna fragmentation and morphology were assessed by chrom...

During the spread of pandemic disease, dental practice come across highest risk corona virus infection by exposure from patient saliva, aerosols generation during procedure, blood contamination oral surgical procedure. This can be transmitted symptomatic to asymptomatic individual through aerosol spread, saliva contamination. Due its ability airborne transmission, so generated natural activity ...