Abdominal aortic coarctation is an extremely rare vascular pathology. Its etiology can be congenital or acquired. Here we present a case of acquired infrarenal abdominal coarctation in a 66-year-old woman who complained of low back and legs pain. She had no signs of resting lower limb ischemia, with diminished distal pulses and normal blood pressure in upper and lower extremities. Magnetic reso...

Percutaneous nephrolithotomy is widely accepted and effective treatment modality for renal stone disease. When compared with other surgical interventions such as open renal surgery, percutaneous nephrolithotomy has lower morbidity and postoperative patient discomfort, so percutaneous nephrolithotomy mostly replaced open surgery in most of the urology clinics in Turkey and worldwide. In this rev...

Nonvascular intervention of the urinary tract is a well-established uroradiologic subspecialty, which is more important for avoiding invasive open surgery in the age of rising demand about the value of less invasive treatment. Various kinds of nonvascular intervention are recently performed under image-guidance and are as follows: percutaneous nephrostomy, percutaneous nephrostolithotomy, percu...

Background: Open hamstring lengthening (oHSL) is commonly performed to decrease knee contracture and improvegait and posture for children with spastic diplegia. Furthermore, percutaneous hamstring lengthening (pHSL) is alsogaining popularity as an alternative to the open approach. This study aimed to compare the results of pHSL versusoHSL and to determine the efficacy and safe...

Background. Lower back pain is a common reason for disability and the most common cause is lumbar disc herniation. Percutaneous epidural adhesiolysis has been applied to relieve pain and increase the functional capacity of patients who present this condition. Objectives. In this study, we retrospectively evaluated the factors which predict the outcome of percutaneous epidural adhesiolysis in pa...

BACKGROUND Hydrocalix is an uncommon condition that typically is treated with percutaneous dilation of the stenotic infundibulum. Ureteroscopy has the advantage of minimizing invasiveness. METHODS We reviewed our experience with 12 retrograde ureteroscopies for hydrocalix in 10 patients. RESULTS Access to the hydrocalix could not be achieved in one. Of the remaining 11, the original infundi...

Abstract Background Venous thoracic outlet syndrome resulting in the upper limb deep venous thrombosis is known as Paget–Schroetter or effort thrombosis. A general treatment algorithm includes catheter-directed thrombolysis followed by surgical decompression. There are limited data regarding endovascular of rethrombosis presenting early after surgery. Case presentation Two cases successfully tr...

BACKGROUND Many patients with acute coronary syndromes are offered percutaneous coronary intervention. However, the appropriate indications for, and optimal timing of, such procedures are uncertain. We analysed timing of intervention and associated events (death and myocardial infarction) in the PURSUIT trial in which 9461 patients received a platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor, eptifibati...

OBJECTIVE We describe the long-term outcomes of 510 diabetic patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) and an active foot ulcer or gangrene, seen at the University Hospital of Rome Tor Vergata, a tertiary care clinic. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS These patients were seen between November 2002 and November 2007 (mean follow-up 20 +/- 13 months [range 1-66 months]). The Texas Wound Classificati...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of medical treatment with percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO). BACKGROUND Patients with cryptogenic stroke and PFO are at risk for recurrent cerebrovascular events. METHODS We compared the risk of recurrence in 308 patients with cryptogenic stroke and PFO, who were treated either medically (158 patients) or unde...