Current Endovascular Management of Arterial Complications After Pediatric Liver Transplantation in a Tertiary Center.

Purpose: Pediatric liver transplant surgery is burdened by arterial complications whose endovascular treatment is not standardized. We report the outcomes of a cohort of pediatric recipients with hepatic artery complications treated by endoluminal procedures.

Materials And Methods: From December 2019 to December 2022, consecutive transplanted pediatric patients who underwent endovascular treatment of hepatic artery complications were reviewed.

Multiorgan Involvement in SARS-CoV-2 Infection: The Role of the Radiologist from Head to Toe.

Radiology plays a crucial role for the diagnosis and management of COVID-19 patients during the different stages of the disease, allowing for early detection of manifestations and complications of COVID-19 in the different organs. Lungs are the most common organs involved by SARS-CoV-2 and chest computed tomography (CT) represents a reliable imaging-based tool in acute, subacute, and chronic settings for diagnosis, prognosis, and management of lung disease and the evaluation of acute and chronic complications. Cardiac involvement can be evaluated by using cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA), considered as the best choice to solve the differential diagnosis between the most common cardiac conditions: acute coronary syndrome, myocarditis, and cardiac dysrhythmia.

Compressive ultrasound can predict early pulmonary embolism onset in COVID patients.

Purpose: To evaluate the usefulness of compressive ultrasound (CUS) for the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in patients with SARS-CoV-2-related infection.

Methods: 112 hospitalized patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection were retrospectively enrolled. CUS was performed within 2 days of admission and consisted in the assessment of the proximal and distal deep venous systems.

Acute pulmonary embolism in hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2-related pneumonia: multicentric experience from Italian endemic area.

Purpose: To analyze pulmonary embolism (PE) on chest computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) in hospitalized patients affected by SARS-CoV-2, according to the severity of lung disease based both on temporal CT features changes and on CT-severity lung involvement (CT-severity score), along with the support of clinical and laboratory findings.

Methods: We retrospectively enrolled a total of 170 patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who underwent CTPA examination for PE suspicion. Pulmonary arteries diameters, right ventricle/left ventricle (RV/LV) ratio, presence, absence, and distribution of PE, pulmonary artery obstructive index (PAO index), and lobe involvement were recorded.

Multivessel endovascular therapy for undiagnosed vascular type Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Successful percutaneous transcatheter coil embolization of hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm with stenting of right renal and iliac arteries in emergency setting.

Among Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, the vascular type is the most severe because of its vascular complications. Transcatheter embolization of medium-sized arteries has become the first-line therapy for life-threatening hemorrhage. Ongoing multiple lesions causing hemorrhagic or ischemic complications in the acute phase can challenge patient management.

Chest X-ray features of SARS-CoV-2 in the emergency department: a multicenter experience from northern Italian hospitals.

Objectives: To evaluate the imaging features of routine admission chest X-ray in patients referred for novel Coronavirus 2019 infection.

Methods: All patients referred to the emergency departments, RT-PCR positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection were evaluated. Demographic and clinical data were recorded.