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A case report of a perigraft inflammatory reaction to a Viabahn stent-graft: diagnosis with MRI and treatment with steroids

Perigraft inflammatory reactions to prosthetic graft materials in vascular surgery have been reported; however, to our knowledge, this is the first report of a perigraft inflammatory reaction to a Viabahn sten...

Authors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Kenzo Uzu, Takahiro Sawada, Tomofumi Takaya and Hiroya Kawai

Mid-term outcome of transarterial embolization of renal artery pseudoaneurysm and arteriovenous fistula after partial nephrectomy screened by early postoperative contrast-enhanced CT

To retrospectively evaluate the mid-term outcome of transarterial embolization (TAE) of renal artery pseudoaneurysm (RAP) including arteriovenous fistula (AVF) after partial nephrectomy screened by early posto...

Authors: Satoru Morita, Yuka Matsuzaki, Takahiro Yamamoto, Kumi Kamoshida, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Tsuyoshi Tajima, Tsunenori Kondo, Toshio Takagi, Kazuhiko Yoshida, Kazunari Tanabe and Shuji Sakai

To the editor: Interventional radiology in the COVID-19 era: Crisis and opportunity

Authors: Konstantinos Katsanos, Panagiotis Kitrou and Dimitrios Karnabatidis

Treatment of visceral artery aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms with the use of cerebral flow diverting stents: initial experience

Flow-diverter stents (FDS) are designed to maintain laminar flow in the parent artery and sidebranches and to promote thrombosis of the aneurysm. Although these devices were developed for use in intracranial c...

Authors: Paolo Rabuffi, Antonio Bruni, Enzo Gabriele Maria Antonuccio, Cesare Ambrogi and Simone Vagnarelli

Magnetic resonance venography for 3-dimensional live guidance during venous sinus stenting

The purpose of this study was to report the technique for intraprocedural guidance of endovascular Venous Sinus Stenting procedures using 3-Dimensional (3D) Magnetic Resonance Venography (MRV) as an overlay on...

Authors: Vaishnavi Kishore, Sri Hari Sundararajan, Raphael Doustaly, Marissa Michael, Dwight Xuan, Thomas Link, Benjamin Rapoport and Athos Patsalides

Achievable aspiration flow rates with large balloon guide catheters during carotid artery stenting

Emergency carotid artery stenting (CAS) is a frequent endovascular procedure, especially in combination with intracranial thrombectomy. Balloon guide catheters are frequently used in these procedures. Our aim ...

Authors: Tilman Schubert, Leonardo Rivera-Rivera, Alejandro Roldan-Alzate, Daniel Consigny, Lorenz Leitner, Charles Strother and Beverly Aagaard-Kienitz

Endovascular management of an unsual case of spontaneous Retroperitoneal Haemorrhage due to Fibromuscular Dysplasia

Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is an uncommon vascular disease that results in stenosis, dissection or aneurysmal degeneration. However, it can sometimes manifest atypically, as we show in this case.

Authors: Juan David Molina-Nuevo, Lorena López-Martínez, María José Pedrosa-Jiménez and Enrique Juliá-Molla

Prostatic artery embolization with polyethylene glycol microspheres: evaluation in a canine spontaneous benign prostatic hyperplasia model

Prostatic artery embolization (PAE) is a minimally invasive technique for the management of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) relieving the lower urinary tract symptoms in patients. Various emboli...

Authors: Vanesa Lucas Cava, Francisco Miguel Sánchez Margallo, Claudia Báez Díaz, Luis Dávila Gómez, Juan Rafael Lima Rodríguez and Fei Sun

Successful re-entry using the outback® elite catheter via retrograde popliteal access with IVUS guidance for femoropopliteal occlusion: a case report

There are still cases that are difficult to treat for femoropopliteal chronic total occlusion (CTO). The Outback® Elite catheter is effective re-entry device to treat such kind of difficult cases, however, it ...

Authors: Naoki Hayakawa, Satoshi Kodera, Masataka Arakawa and Junji Kanda

Balloon-assisted coil embolization (BACE) of a wide-necked aneurysm of the inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery

Aneurysms of the pancreaticoduodenal arcades are an uncommon pathology, with a prevalence of 2%, and could be congenital or acquired. Treatment of visceral aneurysms is therefore generally recommended when the...

Authors: Francesco Modestino, Alberta Cappelli, Cristina Mosconi, Giuliano Peta, Antonio Bruno, Giulio Vara, Caterina De Benedictis and Rita Golfieri

Haemoptysis treated by bronchial artery embolisation in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2: case report

We found no data in the literature on the embolization of the bronchial arteries in the context of hemoptysis associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. We therefore decided to share this...

Authors: Salvatore Murgo, Olivier Lheureux, Fabio Taccone, Michael Vouche and Jafar Golzarian

Endovascular management of recurrent hemarthrosis of the knee: a case series

Recurrent hemarthrosis of the knee is an uncommon but potentially debilitating occurrence with multiple etiologies, including previous total knee replacement. The purpose of this study is to present data of a ...

Authors: Richard Pow, Brett Fritsch, Richard Waugh and Chris Rogan

Balloon-assisted Transcatheter arterial embolization using N-butyl cyanoacrylate for iatrogenic arterial bleeding by groin puncture: a new technology

Balloon-assisted transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) using n-butyl cyanoacrylate (NBCA) and lipiodol (Lp) mixture is a new endovascular treatment technique for iatrogenic arterial bleeding by groin punct...

Authors: Tatsuo Ueda, Satoru Murata, Hidemasa Saito, Izumi Miki, Daisuke Yasui, Fumie Sugihara, Wataru Shimizu and Shin-Ichiro Kumita

Coil embolization of a thoracic aorta hematoma with branch artery pseudoaneurysm – case report

A thoracic aorta hematoma with branch artery pseudonaneurysm is a very rare complication of thoraric blunt trauma. The standard treatment of this type of injury is aortic endograft placement.

Authors: Lorant Szabo, Tomas Reyes del Castillo, David Benz, J. Roos, Robert Seelos and Ruben Lopez-Benitez

The p48 MW flow modulation device for treatment of unruptured, saccular intracranial aneurysms: a single center experience from 77 consecutive aneurysms

The p48 MW Flow Modulation Device (phenox, Bochum Germany) is a low profile flow diverter stent (FDS), designed for implantation into intracranial arteries with a diameter of less than 3.5 mm.

Authors: Muhammad AlMatter, Elina Henkes, Alexander Sirakov, Marta Aguilar Pérez, Victoria Hellstern, Carmen Serna Candel, Oliver Ganslandt and Hans Henkes

Single institutional experience of peripheral applications of a liquid embolic agent: Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol Copolymer

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) copolymer for the treatment of a variety of peripheral vascular pathologies.

Authors: Abhijit L. Salaskar, Faezeh Razjouyan, Alexander L. Cho, Rishi R. Sood, Andrew Akman, Daniel Scher, Anthony C. Venbrux and Shawn N. Sarin

Spontaneous rupture of the pancreatic arcade artery caused by neurofibromatosis type 1 successfully treated using emergency transcatheter arterial embolization, partial intra-aortic balloon occlusion, and stent graft placement: a case report and review of the literature

Vascular abnormalities in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) are rare, but are the second leading cause of death in persons with NF1. In NF1 vasculopathy (NF-V), fatal bleeding due to a spontaneous arterial ruptur...

Authors: Ryo Morita, Daisuke Abo, Takeshi Soyama, Yuki Yoshino, Toru Yoshikawa, Tasuku Kimura and Kohsuke Kudo

Left omental artery bleeding in two patients with segmental arterial mediolysis successfully isolated with coil embolization

Segmental arterial mediolysis (SAM) is a rare, nonatherosclerotic, noninflammatory arteriopathy of unknown etiology, rarely involving omental artery (OA). No case reports have described left OA bleeding succes...

Authors: Tomoya Nishiyama, Daisuke Yamada, Ken Oba and Yasuyuki Kurihara

Antegrade or retrograde approach for thoracic duct embolization? Inhalation may be part of the answer

Authors: Gérald Gahide and Karl Sam

Unnecessary hysterectomies and our role as interventional radiology community

Authors: Gregory C. Makris, Saqib Butt and Tarun Sabharwal

Short-term follow-up of embolization of hip synovitis

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most frequent joint disease, affecting 10% of men and 18% of women older than 60 years worldwide. Traditionally, treatment is based in pain management with joint replacement of end-s...

Authors: Mateus Picada Correa, Renan Camargo Puton, Jaber Nashat Saleh, Rafael Stevan Noel, Luis Henrique Penteado da Silva, Daniela Medeiros de Castro and Julio Cesar de Mello Bajesrki

IR voices about COVID 19

Authors: Robert Morgan, Mohammad Arabi, Yasuaki Arai, Marco Das, Jafar Golzarian, Andrew Holden, Shuvro H. Roy-Choudhury, Stavros Spiliopoulos, Gao-Jun Teng and Maria Tsitskari

Study protocol of a pilot study on sirolimus-coated balloon angioplasty in salvaging clotted arteriovenous graft

In arteriovenous graft (AVG) for haemodialysis, the primary cause of failure is venous stenosis of the graft-vein junction from neointimal hyperplasia (NIH), resulting in thrombosis. While interventions to sal...

Authors: Ru Yu Tan, Chee Wooi Tan, Suh Chien Pang, Marjorie Wai Yin Foo, Tjun Yip Tang, Apoorva Gogna, Tze Tec Chong and Chieh Suai Tan

Endovascular flow-diversion of visceral and renal artery aneurysms using dual-layer braided nitinol carotid stents

Visceral and renal artery aneurysms (VRAAs) are uncommon but are associated with a high mortality rate in the event of rupture. Endovascular treatment is now first line in many centres, but preservation of art...

Authors: Penelope van Veenendaal, Julian Maingard, Hong Kuan Kok, Dinesh Ranatunga, Tim Buckenham, Ronil V. Chandra, Michael J. Lee, Duncan Mark Brooks and Hamed Asadi

Response of UK interventional radiologists to the COVID-19 pandemic – survey findings

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented effect upon the National Health Service (NHS). Like other specialties, Interventional Radiology (IR) rapidly adapted to the evolving situation. Members of BSIR we...

Authors: Sammy Rostampour, Trevor Cleveland, Hilary White, Philip Haslam, Ian McCafferty and Mo Hamady

Intraprocedural guidance for recanalization of post-thrombotic venous lesions using live overlay of center lines from pre-operative cross-sectional imaging: a preliminary experience

Pre-procedural contrast-enhanced CT and MRI imaging is typically acquired prior to deep venous recanalization procedures for post-thrombotic syndrome. This technical note reports the utility of live-overlay of...

Authors: Sri Hari Sundararajan, Raphael Doustaly, Gregoire Avignon, David C. Madoff and Ronald S. Winokur

Coil-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration (CARTO) for the treatment of gastric varices via a single access route using steerable microcatheter: a case report

Coil-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration (CARTO) is a modified balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) technique using coils instead of an indwelling balloon. A method involving tw...

Authors: Kanako Terada, Takahiro Ogi, Norihide Yoneda, Akira Yokka, Takumi Sugiura, Wataru Koda, Satoshi Kobayashi and Toshifumi Gabata

Percutaneous treatment of vascular access-site complications: a ten years’ experience in two centres

The spread of percutaneous arterial catheterization in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures has led to a parallel increase of vascular access site complications. The incidence of these events is between 0.2–1...

Authors: Roberto Minici, Sara Paone, Marisa Talarico, Lorenzo Zappia, Karim Abdalla, Maria Petullà and Domenico Laganà

Acute kidney injury following percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy of subclavian artery stent graft thrombosis: a case report

Percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy (PMT) is a well-established technique for treatment of acute arterial and venous thrombosis which inevitably leads to intravascular erythrocyte hemolysis, resulting in hemo...

Authors: Tajana Turk, Darko Blaskovic, Ranko Smiljanic and Vinko Vidjak

Adult-onset portosystemic encephalopathy caused by patent ductus venosus successfully treated with endovascular coil embolization: a rare case report

Patent ductus venosus (PDV) is a congenital shunt between the portal vein (PV) and inferior vena cava (IVC). However, there are few reports on symptomatic adult-onset PDV, and the appropriate management of thi...

Authors: Hiromi Muranishi and Yasuo Komura

European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) 2020 clinical practice guidelines on the management of acute limb ischaemia; a word of caution!

Authors: M. Hamady and S. Müller-Hülsbeck

Spanish multicenter real – life registry of retrievable vena cava filters (REFiVeC)

The treatment of venous thromboembolic disease the treatment of choice is systemic anticoagulation. However, the interruption of the inferior vena cava with filters has been recommended when anticoagulation fa...

Authors: Miguel A. De Gregorio, Jose A. Guirola, Jose Urbano, Ignacio Díaz-Lorenzo, Jose J. Muñoz, Elena Villacastin, Antonio Lopez-Medina, Ana L. Figueredo, Javier Guerrero, Sergio Sierre, Javier Blazquez Sanchez, William T. Kuo and David Jimenez

Balloon-oriented puncture for creating an access for endovascular aortic aneurysm repair in a case of iliac and femoral artery occlusion

Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) with iliac artery occlusive diseases are not uncommon. When an occlusion extends from iliac artery to common femoral artery (CFA), adjunctive procedures such as endareterectomy...

Authors: Shigeo Ichihashi, Satoru Nagatomi, Shinichi Iwakoshi, Masahiro Inagaki, Francesco Bolstad and Kimihiko Kichikawa

Embolization of medium-sized vessels with the penumbra occlusion device: evaluation of anchoring function

The penumbra occlusion device (POD) is a recently developed metallic coil with a unique anchor segment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the anchoring function of the POD for embolization of medium...

Authors: Kenichi Kato, Kazuya Kawashima, Tomohiro Suzuki, Makoto Hamano, Sohei Yoshida and Kunihiro Yoshioka

Procedural complications of inferior vena cava filter retrieval, an illustrated review

Annually, approximately 65,000 inferior vena cava (IVC) filters are placed in the United States (Ahmed et al., J Am Coll Radiol 15:1553–1557, 2018). Approximately 35% of filters are eventually retrieved (Angel...

Authors: Keith B. Quencer, Tyler A. Smith, Amy Deipolyi, Hamid Mojibian, Raj Ayyagari, Igor Latich and Rahmat Ali

Conventional angiography findings in hemodynamically unstable patients with acute abdominal hemorrhage and a negative CT bleeding study

CT bleeding study (CTA) is regularly requested in acute abdominal haemorrhage (AAH) with haemodynamic instability by clinical teams and interventional radiologists because CTA can; detect arterial bleeding at ...

Authors: Amy C. O’Brien, Gerard M. Healy, Nicholas Rutledge, Aishan Patil, Jeffrey W. J. McCann and Colin P. Cantwell

Endovascular treatment of aortic stump blow-out after extra-anatomical repair of aortoduodenal fistula: a case report and review of literature

An aortoduodenal fistula (ADF) is an unusual, but serious complication following surgical or endovascular aortic repair. The optimal treatment for ADF consists of removal of the infected graft with in situ or ...

Authors: E. Beijer, V. P. W. Scholtes, P. Moerbeek, H. M. E. Coveliers, R. J. Lely and A. W. J. Hoksbergen

High-output chyloperitoneum following laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication treated with retrograde transvenous thoracic duct embolization

Iatrogenic injury of the thoracic duct with clinical significant chyloperitoneum is a rare complication of abdominal surgery. Chyloperitoneum following laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication has been described in ...

Authors: Gernot Rott and Frieder Boecker

Flow diversion in challenging vascular anatomies: the use of low profile stent retrievers for safe and accurate positioning of the microcatheter

Hemodynamic therapy with Flow-Diverters has become a fundamental option for treatment of cerebral aneurysms. A major obstacle of Flow-Diverters is the comparatively stiff microcatheter required for implantatio...

Authors: Ulf Quäschling, Monika Kläver, Cindy Richter, Gordian Hamerla, Simone Mucha, Cordula Scherlach, Jens Maybaum, Karl-Titus Hoffmann and Stefan Schob

Iliac-enteric fistula managed by endovascular covered stent placement using extra-vascular microwire snaring: a case report

Although snaring technique is a commonly used tool in the interventional radiologists’ armamentarium, there are no reports of its use in an extra-vascular space to achieve access across a pseudoaneurysm that w...

Authors: Amgad M. Moussa and Constantinos T. Sofocleous

Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration of colonic varices: a case report

Ectopic varices are uncommon and typically due to underlying liver cirrhosis. They can be located in the duodenum, small intestines, colon or rectum, and may result in massive haemorrhage. While established gu...

Authors: Chantal Liu, Sivasubramanian Srinivasan, Suresh B. Babu and Raymond Chung

Correction to: Endovascular management of unruptured intercostal artery aneurysms

‘In the published article (Fenwick et al., 2019) the statement under the subheading ‘Consent for publication’ is incorrect.

Authors: Andrew K. C. Fenwick, Patrick Omotoso and Darren Ferguson

Tibial access for supra-inguinal embolization in extremely obese patients

Extreme obesity is a risk factor for hemorrhagic complications of femoral access (FA). Femoral lines, hematomas, pelvic binders and coagulopathy in the trauma scenario may also add difficulty and/or risk to FA...

Authors: Jason C. Smith, Alex L. Cho and Scott T. Fujimoto

A prospective study integrating a curriculum of interventional radiology in undergraduate education: a tetra-core simulation model

Interventional radiology (IR) is underrepresented in undergraduate medical curricula across Europe. By continuing to challenge the boundaries of IR, a rise in the demand for radiologists has been inevitable – ...

Authors: Iakovos Theodoulou, Christina Louca, Michail Sideris, Marios Nicolaides, Deepsha Agrawal, Antonios Halapas, Athanasios Diamantopoulos and Apostolos Papalois

Correction to: A rare case of a giant arterio-venous fistula (AVF) following metastatic choriocarcinoma conditioning pulmonary embolism: multimodal transcatheter embolization using a simultaneous transarterial and transvenous approach

‘In the published article [1] the statement under the subheading ‘Consent for publication’ is incorrect.

Authors: Massimo Venturini, Alice Bergamini, Anna Colarieti, Micaela Petrone, Paolo Marra, Emanuela Rabaiotti, Giorgia Mangili, Massimo Candiani, Alessandro Del Maschio and Francesco De Cobelli

Correction to: Thoracic endovascular repair of a rare case of leaking aortic arch intramural hematoma secondary to Giant cell arteritis

‘In the published article (Salaskar et al. 2019) the statement under the subheading ‘Consent for publication’ is incorrect:

Authors: Abhijit Salaskar, Farzad Najam, Elizabeth Pocock and Shawn Sarin

Carbon dioxide angiography during peripheral angioplasty procedures significantly reduces the risk of contrast-induced nephropathy in patients with chronic kidney disease

Iodinated contrast media are amongst the most frequently prescribed medications, however, their use is not without complications. With contrast-induced nephropathy constituting a major concern, alternative non...

Authors: Athanasios Diamantopoulos, Lorenzo Patrone, Serafino Santonocito, Iakovos Theodoulou, Shazhad Ilyas, Renato Dourado, David Game, Narayan Karunanithy, Sanjay Patel, Hany Zayed and Konstantinos Katsanos

The efficacy of uterine artery embolization with gelatin sponge for retained products of conception with bleeding and future pregnancy outcomes

Retained products of conception (RPOC) with hemorrhage need intervention when RPOC persist and remain symptomatic. The safety and efficacy of uterine artery embolization (UAE) for RPOC using gelatin sponge (GS...

Authors: Yasushi Kimura, Keigo Osuga, Keisuke Nagai, Hidenari Hongyo, Kaishu Tanaka, Yusuke Ono, Hiroki Higashihara, Shinya Matsuzaki, Masayuki Endo, Tadashi Kimura and Noriyuki Tomiyama

Intra-arterial lidocaine administration during uterine fibroid embolization to reduce the immediate postoperative pain: a prospective randomized study

To investigate if intra-arterial lidocaine administrated immediately after the embolisation endpoint reduces the pain.

Authors: Stevo Duvnjak and Poul Erik Andersen

Case report: cystic artery pseudoaneurysm presenting as a massive per rectum bleed treated with percutaneous coil embolization

Cystic artery pseudoaneurysms are rare. It usually occurs as a complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, but can arise uncommonly as a complication of acute cholecystitis. Ruptured cystic artery aneurysms ...

Authors: Frank Carey, Marcus Rault, Michael Crawford, Mark Lewis and Kelvin Tan