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Vascular Intervention

65 year old with a left femoral renal metastasis lesion. Angiograms showing vascularity of the lesion. The two annotated images show the tortuosity of the vessel supplying the lesion. The dotted orange coloured line shows the path of the vessel. It was not possible to cannulate this artery with conventional microcatheters. Adequate catheter position attained […]

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News

Summary of the study Uterine artery embolization has been shown to be an effective treatment for fibroids. However, there are some concerns that long term results may not be as good.  Previous studies have shown that there is a need for further treatment after embolization. This new study clarifies these issues and shows: Uterine artery

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Aortic

60 year old male patient presented to the hospital with severe pain in the adbomen. He underwent a CT scan which showed a 5 cm dilatation of his large artery in the abdomen called aorta (saccular infrarenal aortic aneurysm).  This was treated by interventional radiology using pinhole techniques. A small access was placed in the

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Monthly Archives: October 2018

Thrombolysis of bypass graft Elderly patient with previous fem distal bypass. Initially presented with a stenosis at proximal anastomosis. This was treated with angioplasty. Two weeks later represented acutely with thrombosed graft. Due to underlying problems with the graft decision made to attempt to re-canalise the native arteries. Subintimal angioplasty of native SFA and popliteal arteries

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Monthly Archives: December 2018

Elderly patient with previous fem distal bypass. Initially presented with a stenosis at proximal anastomosis. This was treated with angioplasty.Two weeks later represented acutely with thrombosed graft. Due to underlying problems with the graft decision made to attempt to re-canalise the native arteries.Subintimal angioplasty of native SFA and popliteal arteries done.Zilver PTX stent placed in the SFA

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Thrombolysis of bypass graft

Elderly patient with previous fem distal bypass. Initially presented with a stenosis at proximal anastomosis. This was treated with angioplasty. Two weeks later represented acutely with thrombosed graft. Due to underlying problems with the graft decision made to attempt to re-canalise the native arteries. Subintimal angioplasty of native SFA and popliteal arteries done. Zilver PTX stent placed

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