coronary artery perforation is a rare, but potentially serious, complication of percutaneous coronary intervention and is associated with a high incidence of death, q-wave myocardial infarction, and emergency coronary bypass surgery. management is different but requires prompt recognition and treatment. we describe a case of coronary perforation only after guidewire removal and also review the ...

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PURPOSE To report three patients, each of whom had acute rethrombosis of a reopened middle cerebral artery after urokinase treatment for proximal stenosis (percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the stenosis was performed adjunctive to the thrombolytic treatment to preserve the success of the thrombolysis), and a fourth patient who had percutaneous transluminal angioplasty right after the com...

There has been booming interest in natural orifice transluminal surgery since it was first described. Several techniques first developed for the safe transluminal access now derive into independent endoscopic surgical procedures. In this paper, we describe a case treated by a novel procedure by submucosal tunnelling technique and provide a literature review of the rise of tunnel endoscopic surg...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE When exposure and visual access in aneurysmal microsurgery are limited, exact intraoperative information must be obtained regarding the whole shape of the aneurysm, property of the aneurysmal wall, vessels hidden behind the aneurysmal sac, and surrounding bony structures of the skull base. We developed a transluminal imaging technique that uses 3D MR and CT angiograms and...

BACKGROUND Carotid percutaneous transluminal angioplasty may be a useful non-surgical procedure for carotid stenosis, particularly for lesions not suitable for surgery. OBJECTIVES The objective of this review was to assess the effect of carotid percutaneous transluminal angioplasty compared with carotid endarterectomy (in patients suitable for surgery) or medical therapy (in patients not suit...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this retrospective study was to compare conventional laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy with transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery-assisted living-donor nephrectomy in terms of feasibility and reproducibility. METHODS A total of 115 consecutive female patients who underwent laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy (n=70) or transvagi...

OBJECTIVES We hypothesized that percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty performed on coronary stenoses that have demonstrated rapid angiographic progression would be associated with a high risk of restenosis. BACKGROUND High rates of restenosis have been documented after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of unstable lesions and of lesions that recur rapidly after a success...