thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (ttp) is a rare syndrome affecting multiple organs. there is no sufficient evidence regarding the clinical cardiac manifestations of ttp. nonetheless, pathologic cardiac involvement is quite frequent in acute ttp, which is predominantly manifested as myocardial necrosis due to coronary arteriolar microthrombosis. the present case report describes a 43-year-ol...

Pain treatment can comprise a combination of pharmacological, interventional, surgical, physical, psycological methods. Interventional procedures, particularly minimally invasive percutaneous therapies, have been widely used in recent years. Corticosteroid, hyperbaric saline or oxygen-ozone therapy is a safe procedure for patients in whom pain cannot be relieved by epidural adhesiolysis or othe...

In recent years, the incidence of portal vein thrombosis (PVT) in patients with cirrhosis has increased; ranges from asymptomatic partial to complete occlusion. Treatment is difficult. Anticoagulation therapy may be optimal first-line treatment for acute PVT who lack variceal bleeding or mesenteric ischemia. Minimally invasive options include mechanical thrombectomy, chemical thrombolysis, and ...

IInherited arrhythmia syndromes are electrical myopathies with genetic origins and risk of sudden death. They may present from infancy through adulthood, although the specific diseases have stereotypic but variable phenotypic onset and severity. There is clinical and genetic overlap among the syndromes, with variable penetrance and expressivity. Although underlying mechanisms of arrhythmogenesi...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of MRI- and CT-guided interventional therapies on uterine fibroids. METHODS A total of 280 patients with uterine fibroids who were treated in our hospital from August 2008 to February 2014 were selected and divided into a treatment group and a control group by random draw (n=140). The control group and the treatment group were subjected to CT- and MRI-guided i...

Current clinical practice standards are addressed for the invasive interventional management of post-hemorrhagic cerebral vasospasm (PHCV) in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. The conclusions, based on an assessment by the Standards Committee of the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery, included a critical review of the literature using guidelines for evidence based medicine p...

Back pain is the second leading cause of disability among American adults and is currently treated either with conservative therapy or interventional pain procedures. However, the question that remains is whether we, as physicians, have adequate therapeutic options to offer to the patients who suffer from chronic low back pain but fail both conservative therapy and interventional pain procedure...

Introduction Interventional CMR has been undergoing rapid development because of the availability of MR compatible interventional catheters, and the increased performance of the MR systems themselves. Much of this development has benefited from the previous groundbreaking work in MRI guided surgical technologies ; however, intravascular techniques do not carry the requirement for an open access...