Reporting Peripheral Artery Disease in Claudicants: Lessons Learned From the TASC-Ability Study.

Background: The Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus Document (TASC II) aims to comprehensively describe the case scenarios of aortoiliac and femoropopliteal lesions to suggest an endovascular or a surgical approach. Over time, it has become a guide for describing the gravity of arterial lesions.

Purpose: To assess the revised TASC II system for classifying arterial lesions in a large database of patients presenting with claudication.

Paclitaxel and mortality in patients with claudication and de novo femoropopliteal lesions: a historical cohort study.

Objective: To compare the mortality rates of patients with claudication and de novo femoropopliteal lesions treated with and without paclitaxel coated devices (PCD).

Background: A recent meta-analysis, mostly including patients with claudication and de novo femoropopliteal lesions but also with recurrent stenoses and critical limb ischemia, has shown a significant excess mortality in patients treated with PCD.

Methods: Comparison of two historical cohorts of patients presenting with claudication and de novo femoropopliteal lesions treated with and without PCD between 2008 and 2018.

COVID-19 patients presenting with afebrile acute abdominal pain.

Importance: With the surge in COVID-19 cases worldwide, the medical community should be aware of atypical clinical presentations to help with correct diagnosis, to take the proper measures to place the patient in isolation and to avoid healthcare professionals being infected by coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).

Objective: To report that patients who subsequently test positive for COVID-19 may present with acute abdominal pain and no pulmonary symptoms, although they already have typical lung lesions on computed tomography (CT) scan.

Design, Setting And Participants: This case series is about three patients who presented to the emergency department of a community hospital in Montpellier, France, with acute abdominal pain.

Double Reading of Outsourced CT/MR Radiology Reports: Retrospective Analysis.

Objectives: Our objective was to determine disagreement rates in radiological reports provided by using a double-reading protocol in a national teleradiology company.

Methods: From January 2015 to July 2016, 134169 radiological exams from 36 French centers, benefited outsourced interpretations by certified radiologists, in both regular and after-hours activities. Of these, 2040 CT and MR-scans (1.

Solitaire FR thrombectomy system: immediate results in 56 consecutive acute ischemic stroke patients.

Background And Purpose: Prompt recanalization of cerebral arteries in patients diagnosed with acute ischemic stroke is known to be associated with a better clinical outcome. The aim of this study was to present our initial experience regarding the efficacy and safety of the Solitaire FR as a revascularization device.

Methods: 56 consecutive patients presenting with acute ischemic stroke underwent intra-arterial therapy using the Solitaire FR revascularization device.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Parotid Gland Tumors: Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Sequence Evaluation.

Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in the characterization of parotid gland tumors.

Methods: Fifty-five parotid lesions in 55 patients were retrospectively included. Two observers interpreted 2 reading protocols derived from all MR imaging in 2 distinct sessions, independently and blinded.

Endovascular treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms and circulating endothelial cells.

Objectives: To evaluate the potential implication of circulating endothelial cells (CECs) in complications following endovascular treatment (EVT) of unruptured intracranial aneurysms. CECs characterized as CD146(+)/CD105(+)/CD45(-)/DAPI(+) were considered to originate from an altered endothelial cell layer of the vessel wall.

Study Design: In 15 patients, CECs were characterized and enumerated by the CellTracks(®) System in blood samples from: (1) femoral artery (FA), (2) internal carotid artery (ICA) before (ICA1) and after procedure (ICA2), and (3) a peripheral vein before (PV1) and after EVT (PV2).

Comment on "characterization of circulating endothelial cells in acute myocardial infarction".

The circulating endothelial cell population characterized by Damani et al. might be contaminated by endothelium damage after femoral catheterization.

Endovascular treatment of tandem occlusions of the anterior cerebral circulation with solitaire FR thrombectomy system. Initial experience.

Purpose: The optimal treatment in the acute phase of cervical internal carotid occlusion associated with intracranial obstruction is a matter of debate. In this study, we report our experience using the Solitaire FR revascularization device and synchronous intravenous fibrinolysis. The distal occlusion was treated with Solitaire FR before the proximal one in all cases, a technique not reported so far in the literature.

Mid-term clinical and angiographic results of cerebral aneurisms treated with matrix2(®) coils.

Objective: To evaluate 1 year results of endovascular treatment (EVT) of intracranial aneurisms using Matrix second generation detachable coils (MSG(®)).

Patients And Methods: Between January and December 2006, 32 patients with 32 intracranial aneurisms were treated by coiling using MSG(®), with a minimum follow-up of 1 year. Data were acquired prospectively.

Solitaire FR thrombectomy system: immediate results in 56 consecutive acute ischemic stroke patients.

Background And Purpose: Prompt recanalization of cerebral arteries in patients diagnosed with acute ischemic stroke is known to be associated with a better clinical outcome. The aim of this study was to present our initial experience regarding the efficacy and safety of the Solitaire FR as a revascularization device.

Methods: 56 consecutive patients presenting with acute ischemic stroke underwent intra-arterial therapy using the Solitaire FR revascularization device.

Endovascular treatment of symptomatic intracranial stenosis with the Wingspan stent system and Gateway PTA balloon: a multicenter series of 60 patients with acute and midterm results.

Object: The limitations of the medical management of symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis (SIAS) have encouraged the development of new strategies, such as endovascular treatment. In this study, the authors report and analyze a series of 63 endovascular procedures in which the Wingspan stent system was used.

Methods: Data from 60 patients presenting with refractory SIAS, treated in 5 French neurointerventional centers between September 2006 and August 2009, were retrieved.

Rescue, combined, and stand-alone thrombectomy in the management of large vessel occlusion stroke using the solitaire device: a prospective 50-patient single-center study: timing, safety, and efficacy.

Background And Purpose: Large vessel occlusion in ischemic stroke is associated with a high degree of morbidity. When intravenous thrombolysis fails, mechanical thrombectomy can provide an alternative and synergistic method for flow restoration. In this study we evaluate the safety and efficacy of our stroke management protocol (RECOST study).

Endovascular treatment of symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis: six-year experience in a single-center series of 42 consecutive patients with acute and mid-term results.

Background: The limitations of the medical management of symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis encourage the development of new therapeutic strategies such as intracranial stenting.

Objective: To report and analyze the results of a series of 42 patients treated with 3 different endovascular techniques: isolated angioplasty, balloon-expandable coronary stents, and the Wingspan self-expandable intracranial stent system.

Methods: Forty-two patients presenting with symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis were treated with one of these techniques.

Endovascular stent-assisted thrombolysis in acute occlusive carotid artery dissection.

Introduction: Internal carotid artery dissection with tandem internal carotid and middle cerebral artery occlusion may be responsible for large cerebral infarction that carries a general poor prognosis. Recanalization of internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection by stent-assisted thrombolysis has been recently proposed. We report two cases of acute symptomatic ICA dissection with tandem occlusion successfully treated with emergent endovascular stent-assisted thrombolysis using new self-expandable intracranial stents.

Endovascular treatment of 174 middle cerebral artery aneurysms: clinical outcome and radiologic results at long-term follow-up.

Purpose: To retrospectively evaluate the immediate safety and efficacy as well as the clinical outcome and long-term angiographic results of endovascular treatment (EVT) of middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective review of patients in whom coiling of MCA aneurysms was attempted over a 7-year period. Institutional review board approval and informed written consent were obtained.