Guests' opinion
Percutaneous biopsy of visceral hemangiomas.
When cross-sectional imaging fails to unequivocally confirm visceral hemangiomas, say of the liver, would you percutaneously biopsy them?
Author: Ken Ekechukwu
Left subclavian-vertebral steal syndrome.
The vertebral artery is the first branch of the subclavian artery and supplies the hindbrain, while the internal mammary artery is its second branch and courses behind the anterior chest wall to anastomose with the ipsilateral inferior epigastric artery in the rectus sheath; it offers a nautural route for lower body perfusion in obstructive diseases of the thoracic aorta or is grafted to […]
Neurointerventions
Carotid Artery Stenting
What is Carotid artery stenting? The carotid artery is the artery that carries fresh blood from the heart to the neck, the face, and the head including the anterior brain. Two carotid arteries arise from the aorta, the large artery in the chest that comes directly from the left heart; one runs through the right […]
Embolotherapy
Uterine Fibroid (Artery) Embolization
What is Uterine Fibroid (Artery) Embolization? Uterine fibroids are benign tumors (noncancerous) that grow in the uterus. There may be one or countless fibroids and they grow in any part of the uterus, frequently disfiguring it and making it grow to enormous proportions. These tumors grow and multiply under the influence of the female hormone, […]
Guests' opinion
Stenting central venous stenoses and occlusions.
When will you primarily stent a critical stenosis or total occlusion of the great veins of the chest (SVC and BCVs) once you cross it, even if balloon angioplasty restores reasonable luminal caliber, or will you do so if/when the patient relapses?