Bronchial artery embolization in patients with hemoptysis including follow-up.

Unlabelled: BACKGROUND; Hemoptysis can be an acute medical emergency, which can be localized angiographically and controlled by therapeutic intervention.

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of bronchial artery embolization, and including follow-up in patients with hemoptysis.

Material And Methods: Thirty-five vascular interventions were performed in 28 patients (nine women and 19 men, mean age 42 years, age range 20-82 years) treated for hemoptysis between January 1998 and October 2008.

[Refined staging in Hilar bronchial neoplasms with ECG-gated multislice-CT---case report].

Equivocal initial CT-based staging in 2 patients with hilar bronchial neoplasms was reassessed with retrospective ECG-gated Multislice-CT and optimized examination parameters prior to definition of treatment. An initially suspected irresectable T4 tumor with mediastinal infiltration was downstaged to T2 in one case, while tumor infiltration into the left atrium could be confirmed in the other case. In doubtful conditions, ECG-gated multislice CT with optimized examination parameters may be helpful for refined staging in patients with hilar bronchial neoplasms, thus possibly influencing treatment strategies.

Endovascular reconstruction of complex arterial obstructions in the mesenteric arcade with "kissing stents": technical note.

This report describes a technique for advanced endoluminal reconstruction of complex bifurcational arterial obstructions located within the mesenteric arcade deploying applications from percutaneous transluminal coronary artery angioplasty. A patient was treated for persistent mesenteric ischemia during prolonged recovery after initial small bowel resection due to acute mesenteric ischemia. Following endovascular reconstruction of a complex arterial obstruction within the mesenteric arcade, ischemic symptoms subsided quickly and the patient recovered well.

Percutaneous left atrial cardiac biopsy with CT fluoroscopy guidance.

Percutaneous computed tomographic (CT) fluoroscopy-guided biopsy was performed to evaluate an intracardiac tumor located within the left atrium of a 72-year-old woman. Postinterventional follow-up was unproblematic and free of complications. Histopathologic examination revealed a high-grade cardiac sarcoma, and the patient underwent consecutive resection and radiation therapy.