Fatal vascular complications during transradial percutaneous coronary intervention: A case report.

Rationale: Vascular complications of transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are rare and usually occur at the access site below the elbow. However, vessels along the tract of the wire or catheter can be injured at any point, causing various types of bleeding complications.

Patient Concerns: A 57-year-old man visited due to chest discomfort.

Retroperitoneal hemorrhage after endoscopic removal of a fish bone stuck in the duodenum of a patient receiving hemodialysis.

Fish bones are often ingested accidently. Most of them passes out through the gastrointestinal tract safely, but serious complications, such as perforation, abscess, obstruction, and bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, can occur. An ingested fish bone can be easily removed by endoscopy, and surgery is rarely required.

Manual reduction of torsion of an intrascrotal appendage under ultrasonographic monitoring.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and safety of manual reduction of torsion of an intrascrotal appendage under ultrasonographic monitoring.

Methods: Fifteen boys with torsion of an intrascrotal appendage, confirmed by scrotal ultrasonography and clinical status, were included in the study. The boys were 6 to 13 years old (mean age, 9 years).

Percutaneous transcatheter angiographic embolization in the management of obstetric hemorrhage.

Objective: To describe the results of percutaneous arterial embolization in the management of obstetric hemorrhage.

Study Design: From February 1992 to May 2000, 33 patients with pregnancy-related hemorrhage underwent angiographic embolization to control the hemorrhage. In all cases, hemostatic embolization was performed because of intractable hemorrhage unresponsive to conservative management.

Collateral pathways in patients with celiac axis stenosis: angiographic-spiral CT correlation.

Although celiac axis stenosis is a frequently encountered occlusive vascular disease, clinically significant ischemic bowel disease caused by celiac axis stenosis is rarely reported due to rich collateral circulation from the superior mesenteric artery (SMA). The most important and frequently encountered collateral vessels from the SMA in patients with celiac axis stenosis are the pancreaticoduodenal arcades and the dorsal pancreatic artery. Subtypes of collateral pathways via the dorsal pancreatic artery include a longitudinal pathway between the celiac branches and the SMA or its branches and a transverse pathway to either the splenic or gastroduodenal artery.

Fetal pericallosal lipoma: US and MR findings.

We report a case of fetal pericallosal lipoma occurring at the anterior interhemispheric fissure and associated with agenesis of the corpus callosum. During targeted prenatal ultrasonography at 26 weeks' gestation, the lesion was seen as a highly echogenic mass. MR imaging performed at 35 weeks' gestation and during the postnatal period revealed a pericallosal fatty mass and agenesis of the corpus callosum.

Bronchial compression by posteriorly displaced ascending aorta in patients with congenital heart disease.

Background: We encountered several patients with posteriorly displaced ascending aorta and bronchial compression associated with congenital heart disease. We describe the helical computed tomography (CT) findings and explore the mechanism of airway compression.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data and CT findings of 8 patients with posterior displacement of the ascending aorta.