BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Endovascular therapy is an alternative for the treatment of AIS resulting from large intracranial arterial occlusions that depends on the use of iodinated RCM. The risk of RCM-mediated AKI following endovascular therapy for AIS may be different from that following coronary interventions because patients may not have identical risk factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS All cons...

OBJECTIVE Endovascular therapies may offer distinct advantages in acute aortic syndromes. In this paper, we present our experience with emergent endovascular repair of both abdominal and thoracic aortic ruptures and report early and midterm out comes. METHODS Data from all patients (n=96) who were treated by endovascular procedures between 2004 to 2012 were prospectively collected and early-m...

Endovascular repair has been used over a decade as a treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm, and has become a widely accepted treatment method with a low rate of perioperative complications. Endoleak, perigraft blood flow outside endograft but within aneurysmsac, has been intensively studied during the last 10 years of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVR). The natural history of aneurysms with en...

PURPOSE To describe a safe percutaneous method of transauricular endovascular access in small and large animals that uses basic catheter-based interventional skills and renders surgery and general anesthesia with intubation unnecessary. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty New Zealand White rabbits and five domestic juvenile swine were used in the experiments. Animals were restrained in the supine po...

introduction: to compare endovenous laser ablation (evla) and radiofrequency ablation (rfa) in different legs in the same individual in patients with venous insufficiency. methods: sixty patients with bilateral saphenous vein insufficiency were included. evla or rfa was applied to one of the patient’s legs and rfa or evla to the other leg. results: evla and rfa complications were hyperemia at 2...

aortobronchial fistula (abf) is a rare and late complication of cardiac surgery. if untreated, mortality rate is approximately 100% secondary to exsanguinations haemoptysis. early diagnosis and treatment are essential for successful management. open surgical repair is associated with high morbidity and mortality rate, ranging from 25% to 41%. endovascular treatments of abf is a less invasive tr...

aortoenteric fistula is a rare but significant clinical entity associated with high morbidity and mortality if remain untreated. clinical presentation and imaging findings may be subtle and prompt diagnosis can be difficult. herein, we present a patient who initially presented with abdominal pain and computed tomography showed an aortic aneurysm compressing duodenum without any air bubbles. one...