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PurposeTo assess the efficacy of percutaneous techniques in managing paediatric liver transplantation complications.Material and MethodsWe carried out 105 paediatric cadaveric donor liver transplantations at our centre from 2001 to 2018. Percutaneous techniques were used to treat 25 cases involving transplantation complications in 23 patients. Bili...
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PurposeTo investigate the technical feasibility, safety and clinical outcomes of coil-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration II (CARTO-II) for gastric varices (GV).Materials and MethodsThirty-six consecutive patients who had undergone CARTO-II between June 2016 and April 2018 were included in the study. In the CARTO procedure, coil embolizati...
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IntroductionTo evaluate the long-term consolidation of vertebral metastases (VM) after preventive vertebroplasty (PV) and to report risk factors of pathological fracture despite PV.Materials and MethodsFiles of 100 consecutives cancer patients referred for PV of VM were retrospectively analyzed. We enumerated 215 VM at the time of the PV procedure ...
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PurposeThe global population of the aged is escalating. The need of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients older than 80 years is on the rise. The aim of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the safety and the prognosis of TACE in octogenarians with HCC.Materials and MethodsFrom January 2007 to J...
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In their recently published pooled analysis of four drug-coated balloon (DCB) studies, which focused on the impact of patient and lesion characteristics on LLL at 6 months (Albrecht T et al. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2018 Dec 11. 10.1007/s00270-018-2137-3), the authors reported slightly inaccurate 2-year mortality rates.
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PurposeTo provide insight into the current use and results of ultrasound-facilitated catheter-directed thrombolysis (USAT) in patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE).IntroductionSystemic thrombolysis is an effective treatment for hemodynamically unstable, high-risk PE, but is associated with bleeding complications. USAT is thought to reduce...
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PurposeTo evaluate long-term primary and secondary patency results of drug-eluting balloon angioplasty for the treatment of juxta-anastomotic stenoses in distal radiocephalic arteriovenous fistulas.Materials and MethodsThirty-eight patients with juxta-anastomotic stenotic distal radiocephalic arteriovenous fistulas who underwent endovascular treatm...
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PurposeThe aim of the study was to evaluate the technical success of the procedure and the clinical efficacy of treatment in patients with thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) (Buerger’s disease) based on a change in the Rutherford classification.Materials and MethodsA total of 28 consecutive patients (26 males, 2 females, mean age 43.3 ± 5.32 years) u...
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Published in CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology
PurposeTo investigate liver stiffness changes—evaluated by point shear wave elastography (pSWE)—in controlled hyperthermia and microwave ablation (MWA) in an ex vivo animal model.Materials and MethodsFive samples of ex vivo bovine liver were uniformly heated to temperatures ranging from 40 to 100 °C. B-mode ultrasound imaging and pSWE were acquired...
