Endovascular treatment of aortic saddle embolism through percutaneous mechanical Thrombectomy via Straub Rotarex catheter.

Background: To summarize our experience of endovascular treatment for abdominal aorta saddle embolism (ASE) through percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy (PMT).

Methods: Clinical data of three ASE patients treated with an endovascular approach using percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy (PMT) were reviewed and analyzed.

Results: After PMT, blood flow of limbs was restored in all of the three patients.

Endovascular therapy for floating thrombus in the inferior vena cava.

Objective: We aimed to summarize the clinical characteristics of floating thrombus in the inferior vena cava (IVC).

Methods: From January 2014 to June 2019, four patients with floating thrombus in the IVC were admitted to our hospital and underwent intracavitary therapy. Diagnosis, therapy, and clinical characteristics of floating thrombus were summarized.

[High-fat diet induces pulmonary fibrosis in rats and inhibitory effects of N-acetylcysteine].

Objective: To explore the relation between high-fat diet and pulmonary fibrosis and the inhibition of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on lung tissue in rats.

Methods: Thirty Sprague Dawley (SD) male rats were randomly divided into control group (n = 10) on a quantitative control Lieber-DeCarli liquid diet, a high-fat diet group (n = 10) on a high fat-diet Lieber-DeCarli liquid diet and NAC group (n = 10) on NAC 300 mg×kg(-1)×d(-1). All rats were sacrificed 8 weeks later.