hand ischemia is a rare complication of diabetes and some other chronic vascular diseases. critical hand ischemia causes painful limbs and disability and requires urgent revascularization. there have been a few reports of successful trans-brachial percutaneous angioplasty in the upper extremity in the radial or ulnar artery. herein, we report the results of the endovascular treatment of a 68-ye...

background: although percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) is an excellent therapy for coronary artery disease, there is a paucity of information on the efficacy of pci in improving diastolic function, especially in iran. because of the high prevalence of left diastolic dysfunction in coronary artery disease patients and its probable progression to heart failure, an evaluation of the role of...

conclusion metallic stent placement is a safe and effective procedure for salvage of native hemodialysis fistula after unsuccessful balloon angioplasty. results twenty-one stents were applied. the anatomical and clinical success rate was 100%. seventeen additional interventions were done for 11 (55%) patients due to stent thrombosis or stenosis during follow-up. our 1- and 2-year secondary pate...

Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, 17 studies included in final review. Below-the-knee significant techn...

OBJECTIVES Our objective was to determine whether a strategy of intended incomplete percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty revascularization (IR) compromises long-term patient outcome. BACKGROUND Complete angioplasty revascularization (CR) is often not planned nor attempted in patients with multivessel coronary disease, and the extent to which this influences outcome is unclear. MET...

The morphologic consequences of transluminal angioplasty of stenotic atherosclerotic coronary arteries are unknown. This study describes the production of aortoiliac atherosclerosis in rabbits and reports the morphologic changes after transluminal angioplasty of stenotic arterial lesions. Atherosclerotic lesions were evaluated angiographically before and after transluminal angioplasty and were ...

AIMS To compare, by meta-analytical techniques, the clinical impact of bare-metal stenting vs. balloon angioplasty for the treatment of lesions in small coronary arteries. METHODS AND RESULTS We included trials with random allocation and prospective comparison of angioplasty vs. stenting, reference vessel diameter<3 mm, and follow-up>or=6 months. Random effect odds ratios (OR) for death, myoc...

conclusion the open-cell stent is effective and its performance is higher than that obtained with the closed-cell stent for treating central vein stenosis or occlusion in hemodialysis patients. results for the open-cell stent group, 159 patients were diagnosed as central vein stenosis and 98 were occlusion. for the closed-cell stent group, 78 were stenosis and 66 were occlusion. there were two ...

introduction: ischemic preconditioning mediated by potassium channels is a physiological protective mechanism, . it is hypothesized that nicorandil, which is a potassium channel activator, could protect the heart via preconditioning. materials and methods:this clinical trial was conducted on 162 patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) in quem hospital, from jan2013 to jan 2...