Complication of chyle leakage is rare post mastectomy, ranging from 0.36 – 0.84%. This case report discuses a chylous mastectomy in 79-year-old female. The complication was suspected when the draining colour axillary drainage change serous fluid to milky colour, diagnosis then confirmed clinically and biochemically as chyle. patient initially managed conservatively, but this not successful refe...

Recently, percutaneous coronary intervention has been the treatment of choice in most acute myocardial infarction cases. Although the results of percutaneous coronary interventions have ben good, the no-reflow phenomenon and distal embolization of intracoronary thrombus are still major problems even after successful interventions. In this article, we will briefly review the deleterious effects ...

Percutaneous device closure of atrial septal defect (ASD) is an alternative treatment to surgery. The main advantages of the percutaneous approach include avoidance of surgery, short procedure time and hospital length, in addition to comparable rates of complications. However, percutaneous device closure is associated with infrequent early and late complications including device embolization, a...

BACKGROUND N-butyl 2-cyanoacrylate (NBCA) remains the standard embolic agent for spinal dural arteriovenous fistula (SDAVF) treatment. Treatment of SDAVF with ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (Onyx, ev3-Covidien, Irvine CA, USA) is currently not well established. Although several cases have reported the use of Onyx to embolize an intracranial dural arteriovenous fistula using a dual-lumen micro...

Received January 2010 Accepted February 2010 INTRODUCTION Percutaneous renal procedures have become an established approach for diagnosis and treatment of a number of renal pathologic lesions. Hemorrhage and vascular lesions are the most serious complications. The reported incidence of postoperative hemorrhage requiring selective angio-embolization for bleeding control is 1.2%.(1) Delayed bleed...

It is difficult to manage arteriovenous malformations or fistulas of the face because of the abundant vascular network in this region. They are commonly manifest in childhood or adolescence and often present with significant hemorrhage or cosmetic defects. We report a one-year-old infant with a facial arteriovenous fistula. It is successfully treated by transarterial embolization with metallic ...