No Benefit of Wearing Compression Stockings after Endovenous Thermal Ablation of Varicose Veins: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Objective: This meta-analysis was conducted to investigate whether compression stockings were necessary after endovenous thermal ablation of varicose veins.

Data Sources: Electronic databases, including MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library database, were searched from inception to 10 March 2021 to identify all the related trials.

Methods: Random or fixed effects models were used to generate pooled mean difference (MD) or standardised mean difference (SMD) for continuous data, risk ratios (RRs) for dichotomous data, and related 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs).

Impact of gender on the prognosis of carotid body tumor after surgical resection.

Background: Carotid body tumors (CBTs) are rare neuroendocrine neoplasms, but the prognosis of patients with resected CBTs has seldom been elucidated. This study was conducted to investigate the association between variables, especially sex, and the prognosis of carotid body tumor resection.

Methods: This was a large-volume single-center retrospective cohort study.

Level of plasma catecholamine predicts surgical outcomes of carotid body tumors: Retrospective cohort study.

Backgrounds: Carotid body tumors (CBTs) are rare neoplasms and some of them produce catecholamine. Although operations for catecholamine-producing CBTs are safe, the relationship between prognosis and endocrine function has not been analyzed before.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with CBTs in our department between 2009 and 2018 were analyzed.

Stent graft placement versus angioplasty for hemodialysis access failure: a meta-analysis.

Background: Hemodialysis is a common treatment for end-stage renal disease, and maintenance of access patency remains a key issue. Angioplasty is recommended as the first choice for access stenosis, but it poses a risk of a high rate of restenosis. Stent graft placement can generate a high patency rate of dialysis access.

Aneurysmal Degeneration of an Aortorenal Bypass for Takayasu Renal Artery Stenosis: A Novel Endovascular Intervention.

We report an aneurysm degeneration of a vein graft in a previous aortorenal bypass performed 5 years earlier for severe right renal artery stenosis due to Takayasu arteritis. The patient was a 31-year-old woman who suffered from refractory hypertension. The autogenous bypass adopting great saphenous vein was performed from her infrarenal abdominal aorta to her right renal artery.