PURPOSE To determine the specific lesion pattern of supplying arteries in patients with cardiovascular risk factors suffering from treatment-refractory erectile dysfunction (ED). METHODS From May 2012 to August 2013, 26 men (median age 55 years) poorly responsive to phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor therapy were evaluated for a possible vascular cause for their ED. The men were examined with peni...

Isolated abdominal aortic dissection (IAAD) is a rare form of aortic dissection involving usually the infrarenal part of the abdominal aorta. A 45-year-old male presented with lumbar pain and claudication. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) revealed an infrarenal IAAD extending to the left external iliac artery (EIA), causing ≥90% narrowing of the lumen. An endovascular approach was decided,...

Thoracolumbar spinal angiomas are typically fed by intercostal or lumbar arteries [1] and are drained exclusively by perimedullary veins [2]. Rarely, internal iliac artery branches may supply a spinal arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Epidural venous drainage has not been reported [2-4]. Only eight cases of spinal A VMs fed by internal iliac branches have been described in the literature [2, 5-...

As techniques and device technology have improved, the success rates and long patency of ilio-femoral occlusive disease have also improved. In the case of extensive iliac occlusive disease, however, wire passage and handling remain a challenge due to the relatively weak guiding catheter backup support with the contralateral femoral approach. There has been no report on methods to overcome this ...

A 70-year-old man presented with severe pain on the right side of the abdomen for 7 days. An abdominal CT angiographic scan showed an impending rupture of a large right internal iliac artery aneurysm which compressed to a right ureter causing hydroureteronephrosis. Fornix rupture of a right duplex kidney was also detected. Selective embolization of right gluteal arteries and then ligation of th...

We report a case of erectile dysfunction caused by external iliac artery occlusion, associated with pelvic steal syndrome; bilateral internal iliac arteries were patent. The patient stated that he had experienced erectile dysfunction at similar times along with claudication, but he did not mention it before angiography. He expressed that the erectile dysfunction did not last long and that he fe...

Methods 117 endovascular stent-graft procedures in 113 patients for thoracic, abdominal and iliac pathologies was performed at our institute between January 2009-April 2013. 94(83.1%) patients were male. Indications for endovascular interventions were as follows; 58 for abdominal aortic aneursym, 14 for descending aortic aneursym, 4 for both descending and abdominal aortic aneursyms, 2 for thor...

A 53 year old female was referred for computed tomography (CT) angiogram of the abdomen and pelvis to evaluate the deep inferior epigastric artery perforators prior to breast reconstruction surgery. (Figure 1A & 1B). The CT angiogram revealed a beaded appearance of the left external iliac artery. There was no significant stenosis or aneurysm of the artery. The remaining major arteries of the ab...