PURPOSE To assess current antithrombotic treatment strategies in the Netherlands in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). METHODS For every Dutch hospital performing TAVI (n = 14) an interventional cardiologist experienced in performing TAVI was interviewed concerning heparin, aspirin, thienopyridine and oral anticoagulation treatment in patients undergoing TAVI....

Pancreas is an exocrine and endocrine organ. Exocrine portion secretes digestive fluid. Endocrine secreting insulin glucagon etc. developed from dorsal ventral pancreatic buds, which arise either side of distal foregut. When duodenum rotates to right, bud(VPB) posterior along with common bile duct(CBD) finally lies below behind the bud(DPB). In humans, DPB forms major part VPB inferior head unc...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE At lumbar diskography, intradiskal lidocaine can eliminate or reduce provoked diskogenic pain. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the postdiskogram CT features of lidocaine-sensitive and lidocaine-insensitive severely painful disks. MATERIALS AND METHODS Intradiskal lidocaine was injected at 182 severely painful levels in 111 patients. Clinical records/imaging st...