Publications by authors named "Irem Islek"
Flow-diverting stents in the management of extracranial carotid artery aneurysms.
Diagn Interv Radiol
December 2024
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the indications and therapeutic efficacy of flow-diverting stents (FDSs) in the management of extracranial carotid artery aneurysms (ECAAs) and dissections.
Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on 18 patients treated for ECAAs with an FDS between 2010 and 2024. Patient demographics, aneurysm characteristics, procedural details, and clinical and radiologic follow-up outcomes were extracted from medical records.
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluated abdominal CT findings in COVID-19 patients and their relationship with demographic, clinical, and lab data.
- Ischemic findings were present in 20.3% and non-ischemic in 27.7% of the 1,181 reviewed cases, with bowel wall thickening being the most common ischemic finding.
- Patients with CT findings had longer hospital stays and higher mortality rates, indicating that abdominal symptoms in COVID-19 are significant and often linked to adverse outcomes.
Flow diverter stents in the treatment of recanalized intracranial aneurysms.
Interv Neuroradiol
August 2021
Background: We assessed the safety and efficacy of flow diverter stents (FDSs) in the treatment of recanalized or residual intracranial aneurysms treated endovascularly.
Materials & Methods: Patients whose recanalized or residual aneurysms were treated with FDSs in five tertiary hospitals were reviewed retrospectively. The patients' demographic data, aneurysm characteristics, types of previous treatment, and clinical complications, or serious adverse events associated with FDSs, as well as the results of neurological and angiographic follow-up assessments, were recorded.