The optimal management of giant internal carotid aneurysms (GICAs) is disputed owing to their low incidence. The aim of this study was to describe the use of internal carotid artery (ICA) constriction...
This retrospective cohort study analyzed data from medical histories and follow-up of 14 patients with GICAs. Before surgery, the patients underwent balloon test occlusion and magnetic resonance perfu...
The mean follow-up time of the 14 patients was 43.5 months (interquartile range: 38.8-51.3 months). Of these 14 patients, 5 achieved O'Kelly-Marotta grades C and D. Clinical improvement occurred in 12...
ICA constriction exhibits a perforator protective effect. This procedure could be a promising alternative to ICA ligation in patients with GICAs and negative balloon test occlusion....
The objective of this study was to determine the pathologic features of venous in-stent stenosis over time occurring in bare metal stents....
Endovascular biopsy samples were obtained prospectively from venous bare metal stents implanted in 2009 through 2018. All samples were formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded and stained with hematoxylin an...
A total of 254 post-stent venograms with biopsies of in-stent contents from 148 unique patients were studied. Fresh thrombus and organizing thrombus were both present across all studied time intervals...
The evolution of human venous in-stent restenosis appears to follow a time-dependent course, suggesting a possible progressive evolution from fresh and organizing thrombus to DIT. Contrasted with the ...
The application of machine learning to assess plaque risk phenotypes on cardiovascular CT angiography (CTA) is an area of active investigation. Studies using accepted histologic definitions of plaque ...
Sections of atherosclerotic plaques paired with CTA were prospectively collected from patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy at two centers. Specimens were annotated for lipid-rich necrotic core, ...
A total of 496 and 408 vessel cross-sections in the derivation and validation cohorts (from 30 and 23 patients, respectively). The software demonstrated excellent agreement in the validation cohort wi...
A machine-learning software trained on histological ground-truth tissue inputs demonstrated high accuracy for identifying plaque stability phenotypes as compared to expert pathologists....
To raise awareness that patients with proximal ureteral stricture who elect for nephrectomy can consider donating the kidney. We present a series of patients undergoing therapeutic living donor nephre...
This is a retrospective case series of seven therapeutic donors with proximal ureteral pathology and stone disease. Patient characteristics, donor work up, operative details, and donor and recipient o...
All seven donors had proximal ureteral pathology, and six of the seven had nephrolithiasis or ureterolithiasis. After electing for nephrectomy, the mean time to TLDN was 57.9 days. No recipients exper...
This is the first series demonstrating patients with proximal ureteral stricture, even with concomitant stone disease, may donate kidneys for transplantation. Recipient outcomes suggest this practice ...
To explore the clinical features associated with stent eccentricity and reveal the impact of stent eccentricity on the risk of 1-year restenosis after femoropopliteal stent implantation for symptomati...
The clinical database of a multicenter prospective study was used. It registered 2,018 limbs of 1,766 patients in whom intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-supported femoropopliteal endovascular therapy (E...
Chronic total occlusion and bilateral arterial calcification (peripheral artery calcification scoring system Grades 3 and 4) were positively associated with stent eccentricity, whereas renal failure w...
Stent eccentricity was not significantly associated with the risk of 1-year restenosis after femoropopliteal EVT....
Thoracic disc herniation and stenosis are relatively rare, and various symptoms make them difficult to diagnose. Due to the complexity of neural and vascular structure, surgical treatment of thoracic ...
Imaging of the salivary ductal system is relevant prior to an endoscopic or a surgical procedure. Various imaging modalities can be used for this purpose. The aim of this study was to compare the diag...
This prospective, monocenter, pilot study compared both imaging modalities in 46 patients (mean age 50.1 ± 14.9 years) referred for salivary symptoms. The analyses were performed by two independent ra...
Salivary symptoms involved both the submandibular (60.9%) and parotid (39.1%) glands. Sialolithiasis, dilatations, and stenosis were observed in 24, 25, and 9 patients, respectively, with no statistic...
Both imaging procedures warrant being part of the diagnostic arsenal of non-tumorous salivary pathologies. However, MR sialography may be more effective than 3D-CBCT sialography for the identification...
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We aimed to evaluate the concordance between the pre-settings ranges of thulium fibre laser (TFL) (Coloplast TFL Drive, Denmark) with easy-to-use graphical user interface and the laser settings used b...
In October 2022, we prospectively collected data of 67 patients who underwent TFL Drive (Coloplast, Denmark) for the management of urinary stones. Urothelial tumour (upper tract urinary cancer (UTUC) ...
A total 67 patients took part in the study. Median age was 52 (15-81) years. 55 (82%), 8 (12%), and 4 (6%) patients presented urinary stones, urothelial tumour, and stenosis, respectively. Median ston...
During endoscopic procedures for urinary stones treatment, it is frequently needed to change laser parameters. These new TFL and GUI technology parameters remained in the pre-set security range in 94....
Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is a disease primarily affecting the pericardial sac surrounding the heart. The constrictive physiology placed on the heart chambers can lead to clinical presentations m...
Droplets generated through microfluidics serve as a common platform for assembling artificial cells, which are feasibly tailored using microfluidic methodology. The ability of natural cells to undergo...
