Persistent hiccups - A rare complication of suprahepatic inferior vena cava stenting.

Persistent hiccups has not been reported previously with suprahepatic inferior vena cava (IVC) stenting. Persistent hiccups after palliative oesophageal stenting has been reported. We present a case of a 41-year-old male patient diagnosed with primary Budd-Chiari syndrome who underwent IVC stenting for suprahepatic IVC stenosis.

Stent Graft Placement for Treatment of Prosthetic Graft Outflow Stenosis, a Viable Long-term Solution: A Case Report.

Failing prosthetic grafts in patients undergoing hemodialysis is a common problem. Balloon angioplasty is the first line in treating these stenoses, but it is associated with poor patency rates due to recoil and subsequent restenosis. The use of stent graft implantation has shown very promising early and long-term results as per recent literature.

Composite sequential bypass using profunda vein hitchhike.

Patients with long-segment occlusions of the iliac and femoral arteries often undergo sequential bypass procedures. There exists a subgroup of patients who have no suitable vessels in the groin. We report our experience with a new technique of using the profunda vein as a hitchhike point in our series of seven patients (eight limbs) with critical ischemia and occlusion at the iliac or aortic level with reformation of infrageniculate arteries and no reformation in the groin.

A novel helper phage enabling construction of genome-scale ORF-enriched phage display libraries.

Phagemid-based expression of cloned genes fused to the gIIIP coding sequence and rescue using helper phages, such as VCSM13, has been used extensively for constructing large antibody phage display libraries. However, for randomly primed cDNA and gene fragment libraries, this system encounters reading frame problems wherein only one of 18 phages display the translated foreign peptide/protein fused to phagemid-encoded gIIIP. The elimination of phages carrying out-of-frame inserts is vital in order to improve the quality of phage display libraries.

Visceral ischemia: could it be segmental arterial mediolysis.

We present two cases of segmental arterial mediolysis, which can present with dissecting aneurysms or thrombosis of the visceral branches of the abdominal aorta. Segmental arterial mediolysis (SAM) causes ischemic bowel disease and has characteristic CT and angiographic features.