Prophylactic common iliac artery temporary clamping versus balloon occlusion for management of placenta accreta spectrum disorders: A prospective clinical trial.

Objective: The present study aims to compare prophylactic common iliac artery (CIA) temporary clamping and preoperative balloon occlusion for managing placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) disorders.

Study Design: Between January 2019 and June 2020, 46 patients with PAS disorders were included. Of them, 26 patients were offered CIA balloon occlusion (Group A), while temporary CIA clamping was done for the other 20 patients (Group B).

Hepatic Hilar and Celiac Plexus Nerve Blocks as Analgesia for Doxorubicin-Eluting Microsphere Chemoembolization Procedures for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Nonblinded Randomized Clinical Trial.

Purpose: To investigate whether hepatic hilar and celiac plexus nerve blocks provide safe and effective analgesia to patients undergoing doxorubicin-eluting embolics transarterial chemoembolization (DEE-TACE) for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Materials And Methods: In this prospective, randomized trial, 92 patients undergoing DEE-TACE for hepatocellular carcinoma were enrolled. The control group received standard intraprocedural local anesthetic, intra-arterial lidocaine, and intravenous analgesia; the study group underwent additional hepatic hilar and celiac plexus nerve blocks.

Efficacy and safety of flow diverters in posterior circulation aneurysms and comparison with their efficacy in anterior circulation aneurysms: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: We aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of flow-diverter stents (FDs) in the management of posterior circulation cerebral aneurysms and compare FD efficacy between anterior and posterior circulation aneurysms.

Methods: We searched the PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane, and Web of Science databases for relevant studies through March 2020. Studies assessing FDs for posterior circulation aneurysms that included ≥20 treated aneurysms were included.

Transarterial chemoembolisation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: low-dose doxorubicin reduces post-embolisation syndrome without affecting survival-prospective interventional study.

Background: No chemotherapeutic agents have been standardised for transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE). In particular, doxorubicin has no defined optimal dosage in TACE procedures. We compared low versus currently used dose of doxorubicin for TACE in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in terms of severity of post-embolisation syndrome (PES) and overall survival (OS).

Pituitary adenoma surgeries in COVID-19 era: Early local experience from Egypt.

Background: The pandemic of COVID-19 has a great impact on all health-care services worldwide. Neurosurgical recommendations are to postpone the endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgeries during the pandemic. We would like to express our experience with urgent pituitary adenomas during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Sphenopalatine Foramen Computed Tomography Landmarks.

Objective: The aim of the study was to assess different radiologic bony landmarks for endoscopic localization of the sphenopalatine foramen (SPF).

Methods: Paranasal computed tomography (CT) scans of adults without sinonasal pathology were included. On axial cuts, the anteroposterior distances from the SPF to maxillary line, anterior head of the middle turbinate, basal lamella of the middle turbinate, choanal arch, and posterior fontanel of the maxillary sinus ostium were measured.