Endovascular management of mycotic aortic aneurysms.

Purpose: We report a single-center experience with the endovascular management of mycotic aortic aneurysms.

Case Reports: Four cases of mycotic aortic aneurysms are described; all treated with endovascular stent graft with variable configurations. All patients underwent successful placement of stent grafts for their aneurysms.

Percutaneous transhepatic lithotripsy with the holmium: YAG laser for the treatment of refractory biliary lithiasis.

Fourteen patients who failed at least 1 endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatograpy attempt underwent Holmium laser biliary lithotripsy between 2003 and 2007. Ten had prior biliary surgeries, 7 harbored multiple stones, and 6 had common bile duct strictures. Mean age at surgery was 63.

Renal angiomyolipoma: long-term results following selective arterial embolization.

Background: The treatment for and long-term outcome of renal angiomyolipoma (AML) at high-risk for bleeding has not been determined.

Objective: To evaluate the complication rates and the long-term outcomes among patients treated by selective arterial embolization (SAE) for a large or symptomatic renal AML.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Forty-one patients with 48 kidneys containing AML were treated by SAE at a single tertiary academic center.

Transcutaneous detection of aortic arch atheromas by suprasternal harmonic imaging.

Objectives: The goal of the present study was to examine whether suprasternal harmonic imaging (SHI) (i.e., harmonic imaging from the suprasternal windows) can visualize protruding arch atheromas (PAAs) and reliably predict the presence or absence of significant lesions.