OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety and clinical efficacy of transcatheter uterine artery embolization (UAE) for post-myomectomy hemorrhage. MATERIALS AND METHODS We identified eight female patients (age ranged from 29 to 51 years and with a median age of 37) in two regional hospitals who suffered from post-myomectomy hemorrhage requiring UAE during the time period from 2004 to 2012. A retrospec...

SUMMARY Vertebral hemangiomas are very common abnormalities involving human spinal column. Two different kinds of these lesions, symptomatic and asymptomatic hemangiomas are noted in the spine. The asymptomatic ones are found incidentally in spinal imaging investigations and don not need any theraputic action. The symptomatic hemangiomas, which are not as usual as former one but, causes signif...

Coronary artery fistulas, although rare, are the most prevalent and hemodynamically significant congenital malformation of the coronary circulation. Diffuse, multiple fistulas involving both the left and right coronary arteries are even rarer. This disorder has traditionally been managed by surgical ligation. However, now that closure by a transcatheter technique has been successful, endovascul...

Arterial pseudoaneurysms are contained ruptures of the arterial wall that require prompt intervention. Iatrogenic may result from various diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. axillary quite rare, with few reported cases in literature. We report a case 45-year-old woman who sustained an pseudoaneurysm after ultrasound-guided, vacuum-assisted biopsy lymph node. An arteriovenous fistula develope...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Inadvertent foreign body embolization is a rarely diagnosed and neglected complication of cerebral angiography that has not been studied systematically. METHODS We undertook a comprehensive 5-year retrospective study of all available postmortem cases of postangiographic neurologic complications, as well as a comprehensive histologic examination of all surgically resecte...

A teaching machine that simulates intravascular conditions found during a human therapeutic embolization has been constructed. A submersible pump drives fluid through a circuit of tubing. One limb of a Y (a vascular bifurcation) located in this circuit leads to a model arteriovenous malformation. Catheters placed in this limb may introduce embolic materials by various techniques, and those tech...

A feared complication of therapeutic embolization is loss of control of one or more particles with resultant ischemic infarction of normal tissues. To avoid passage of emboli into normal arteries, the delivery catheter may be wedged tightly into the artery or the artery completely occluded with a balloon catheter during embolus injection. These techniques, termed occlusion control, were a valua...