Interventional Angiography: Radiation Protection for the Examiner by using Lead-free Gloves.

Introduction: The radiation exposure to unprotected parts of the body requires special attention for the interventional radiologist. During angiographic procedures, hands are exposed to the direct X-ray beam and scattered radiation.

Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate the radiation exposure of examiners hand with the use of lead-free X-ray protective gloves in clinical practice in terms of shielding and sense of touch.

Haemostasis with the FISH Vascular Closure Device after 6 French Transfemoral Accesses in Interventional Radiology: Clinical Results.

Introduction: Endovascular procedures have increased for different indications over the recent years. To achieve a safe haemostasis after arterial puncture and for more comfort for the patients different vascular closure devices have been developed.

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of a percutaneous closure system based on a matrix patch for achieving haemostasis.

Bilateral Painful Ophthalmoplegia: A Case of Assumed Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome.

We present the case of a man of 47 years with vertical and horizontal paresis of view combined with periorbital pain that developed initially on the right side but extended after 3-4 days to the left. Gadolinum uptaking tissue in the cavernous sinus was shown by MRI of the orbital region in the T1 spin echo sequence with fat saturation (SEfs) with a slice thickness of 2 mm. As no other abnormalities were found and the pain resolved within 72 hours of treatment with cortison a bilateral Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome (THS) was assumed.

Diagnosis and Treatment of Symptomatic Carpal Bossing.

Context: Carpal bossing is an osseous formation at the dorsal portion of the quadrangular joint, which rarely becomes symptomatic. However, in some patients it causes pain, restricted mobility and can lead to complications like tendon rupture, inflammatory and degenerative joint disease.

Aim: In this article, we present our experiences with this rare disorder in order to improve diagnostic and therapeutic proceedings.

Radiofrequency sacroplasty (RFS) for the treatment of osteoporotic insufficiency fractures.

Introduction And Objective: In elderly patients with reduced bone quality, insufficiency fractures of the sacrum are relatively common and are typically accompanied by severe, disabling pain. The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of cement augmentation by RFS, as well as to determine postinterventional leakages and present the patients' outcomes.

Material And Method: In 20 patients (18 women, 2 men) with an average age of 80.

Jejunal diverticulitis ascending to the duodenum as a rare cause of acute abdomen.

We present the case of a 73 year-old Caucasian male with acute abdominal pain, peritonism and vomiting. Due to the severity of symptoms a CT examination of the abdomen was performed. The scans revealed multiple jejunal diverticula, wall thickening of the duodenum and jejunum, and free peritoneal fluid.

Balloon sacroplasty as a palliative pain treatment in patients with metastasis-induced bone destruction and pathological fractures.

Purpose: In the case of metastatic involvement of the sacrum with destruction and consecutive pathological fracture, intense disabling pain is one of the defining factors. The feasibility, safety and pain development with cement augmentation were to be investigated.

Materials And Methods: CT-guided balloon sacroplasty was conducted in 10 patients with metastasis-induced bone destruction of the sacrum.

CT-assisted sympathicolysis as an additional minimally invasive therapeutic option in primary focal plantar hyperhidrosis.

Purpose: The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate the benefit of lumbar computed tomography-assisted sympathicolysis (CTSy) in patients with primary focal hyperhidrosis of the feet.

Methods: A lumbar CTSy was conducted on 35 patients (mean age 36.6 ± 11.

Percutaneous Vascular Closure System Based on an Extravascular, Bioabsorbable Polyglycolic Plug (ExoSeal): Results from 1000 Patients.

Purpose: The objective of this prospective study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of a percutaneous closure system based on a polyglycolic acid plug for achieving hemostasis.

Material And Methods: In this study from 2011 to 2014, a percutaneous vascular closure system (ExoSeal) was used in 1000 patients (mean age 70.6 ± 10.

Combination of rotational atherothrombectomy and Paclitaxel-coated angioplasty for femoropopliteal occlusion.

Objective: The rotational atherothrombectomy with Straub Rotarex(®) is a safe and efficient treatment of acute/subactute vascular occlusions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the benefit of paclitaxel-coated angioplasty after rotational atherothrombectomy over an observation period of six months.

Materials And Methods: Overall, 29 patients were treated with the Rotarex catheter in combination with paclitaxel-coated angioplasty.

Transpopliteal balloon-assisted excimer-laser atherectomy for the treatment of chronic femoropopliteal occlusions: feasibility and initial results.

Purpose: Recanalization of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) of the femoropopliteal arteries depends on a successful lesion crossing with the guide wire. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the safety, feasibility, and the primary results of retrograde recanalization of CTOs with balloon-assisted excimer-laser atherectomy (ELA) via a transpopliteal approach after failed antegrade attempts.

Methods: A total number of 15 patients (10 male, 5 female) with a mean age of 68.

High incidence of hamate hook fractures in underwater rugby players: diagnostic and therapeutic implications.

Hamate hook fractures are rare injuries but appear to occur frequently in underwater rugby, the reason for which was investigated in this study. High-level underwater rugby players with hook fractures diagnosed during a five-year interval (2005-2010) were studied retrospectively. Medical data on these patients were reviewed for information on the mechanism of injury, type of fracture, radiological imaging, treatment, and outcome.

Single-phase percutaneous recanalization of malignant bile duct obstructions with a covered stent graft.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the benefit of a percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTCD) endoprothesis in the case of patients with malignant occlusion of the common bile duct (CBD).

Materials And Methods: 32 patients (mean age 72 ± 13 years) were treated with an endoprosthesis (VIABIL; M. L.

Reduction of radiation exposure for the examiner in angiography using a direct dosimeter.

Purpose: To evaluate whether a reduction in radiation exposure can be achieved using a direct dosimeter with an acoustic warning signal (model EDD-30, Unfors Instruments, Billdal, Sweden).

Materials And Methods: A total of 183 diagnostic and interventional angiographies of the pelvis and lower limbs using a direct dosimeter were analyzed. The vascular interventions were performed either by an experienced examiner (> 5000 interventions), an intermediate examiner (> 1000 interventions) or by a beginner (< 200 interventions).

Recanalization of acute and subacute venous and synthetic bypass-graft occlusions with a mechanical rotational catheter.

Purpose: Percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy (PMT) is now established as an alternative treatment of acute arterial occlusions in addition to fibrinolysis and surgical thrombectomy. The objective of this retrospective study was the investigation of a rotational atherothrombectomy catheter in terms of safety and efficacy in the treatment of acute and subacute femoropopliteal bypass occlusions.

Materials And Methods: Forty-two patients (average age 65.

Excimer laser atherectomy after unsuccessful angioplasty of TASC C and D lesions in femoropopliteal arteries.

Aim: The study objective was to examine the application of excimer laser atherectomy (ELA) in patients with refractory occlusions in femoropopliteal arteries, where the initial conventional percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) recanalization attempts, were unsuccessful.

Methods: The average age of the 40 patients (32 men, 8 women) included in this study was 65.4±9.

[Clinical importance of CT-assisted sympathicolysis in primary, focal plantar and palmar hyperhidrosis].

Purpose: The objective of this study was to evaluate the benefit of thoracic and lumbar computed tomographic-assisted sympathicolysis (CTSy) in patients with primary, focal hyperhidrosis.

Materials And Methods: Thoracic and/or lumbar CTSy was conducted on 101 patients (average age 37.5 ± 15.