Background: We investigated the efficacy, preoperative, postoperative and early stage outcomes of Anaconda type endovascular stent-grafts in patients who had intervention in our clinic with the diagnosis of abdominal aortic aneurysm. Material – Methods: During the years of 2010 and 2013, 23 patients (19 male, 4 female) had endovascular stent-graft procedure with the diagnosis of infrarenal abdo...

OBJECTIVE To describe our experience with endovascular stent-graft repairs in type B aortic dissection focusing on serious secondary complications resulting in immediate or late conversion to open repair. METHODS From November 1997 to May 2007, 28 patients underwent a thoracic endovascular stent-graft procedure for acute symptomatic type B dissection at our institution. Indication for endovas...

Letter by Cao et al Regarding Article, “Impact of Target Arterial Residual Stenosis on Outcome After Endovascular Revascularization” To the Editor: We have read the article by Hwang et al about the impact of residual stenosis on outcome after endovascular revascularization in patients with acute anterior circulation stroke and middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion. In their study, 21 patients ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the costs and benefits of open versus endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). METHODS A consecutive series of 29 elective patients (open treatment, N = 20 and endovascular treatment, N = 9) were compared retrospectively. RESULTS Operating time was significantly shorter for endovascular treatment (mean 90 vs. 125 min, p = 0.026). No endovascular procedure...

Endovascular coil embolization for ophthalmic artery (OphA) aneurysms has a risk of occlusion of the OphA, which can lead to loss of vision. The authors report a patient with unruptured OphA aneurysm which treated with endovascular coiling and were complicated by blindness due to OphA thromboembolic occlusion after the procedure. The OphA successfully recanalized using local intra-arterial fibr...

BACKGROUND Traumatic extracranial carotid artery injuries are rare in children. Treatment options include surgery, anticoagulation therapy and endovascular treatment. There have been only limited reports in the literature documenting endovascular carotid stent placement in the pediatric population. In these reports, stent deployment was utilized in the setting of pseudoaneurysm formation. CAS...

Thromboembolic events are known complications of endovascular coiling of intracerebral aneurysms. We report a case of a 50-year-old patient whose ruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysm was treated with endovascular coiling, which was complicated by occlusion of the inferior M2 trunk during the procedure. An emergency craniotomy was performed to enable coil retrieval, evacuation of the thrombu...