The effect of transarterial chemoembolization therapy on survival in patients with non-resectable hepatocellular carcinoma: Single-center study results.

Background And Aim: This study was designed to investigate the tumor response and effect of drug-eluting transarterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) treatment on survival in patients diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Materials And Methods: The records of 40 patients who underwent DEB-TACE between March 2018 and November 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. Follow-up included abdominal computed tomography and measurement of serum albumin, bilirubin, prothrombin time, and alpha-fetoprotein values.

Antegrade placement of JJ catheter in the treatment of malignant ureteral obstruction: Retrospective analysis of a single centre.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to examine the results of antegrade JJ stent placement in upper urinary tract obstruction in patients where retrograde placement was not possible.

Methods: In this retrospective study, patients who underwent antegrade JJ stent placement for malignant ureteral obstruction in the urology clinic of a university hospital between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2020 were included in the study. JJ stent was placed under local or general anaesthesia guided by ultrasonography and fluoroscopy.

Embolization with more diluted glue-lipiodol in patients with massive hemoptysis: single center experience results.

Objective: The aim of the study was to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of bronchial artery embolization (BAE) with more diluted N-butyl-2- cyanoacrylate (NBCA) in patients with massive hemoptysis.

Patients And Methods: In this retrospective study, there are 48 patients who underwent NBCA and BAE for massive hemoptysis between March 2018 and September 2021. Demographic data, technical and clinical results, immediate hemoptysis control, recurrent hemoptysis and complications were evaluated.

Treatment of a patient with carotid blowout syndrome with a new deconstructive embolization technique.

Carotid blowout syndrome is a rare clinical conditions with a high mortality rate, especially in patients with head and neck tumors who have received radiotherapy and chemotherapy. We present our patient who had hemangioendothelioma of the neck for 5 years and therefore received radiotherapy, fistulized to the skin on the neck and active bleeding out of the fistula area. In the radiological imaging of the patient, vessel wall irregularities in the common carotid artery (CCA) and accompanying pseudoaneurysm with a diameter of 3 cm were detected, and endovascular treatment was performed.

Treatment of complicated bladder rupture with novel percutaneous interventional treatment technique.

Bladder rupture (BR) is very rare and usually occurs after high-energy events. Although high success rates have been reported for surgical intervention, it has not been clearly stated in the literature what could be done in cases where surgery has been unsuccessful. In this case report, we aimed to demonstrate that we provided treatment with the novel interventional technique in our young patient whose urinary leakage and sepsis persisted despite repeated surgeries and prolonged nephrostomy catheter drainage.

Y-stent assisted coiling of ruptured wide neck intracranial aneurysm in the acute phase.

Background: The objective of the present study is to analyze the outcomes of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in the acute phase after treatment with Y-stent-assisted coiling (YSAC) embolization.

Methods: This retrospective study assessed of 30 patients with acutely ruptured wide-neck aneurysms following YSAC treatment between April 2013 and October 2019. The demographic data, aneurysm occlusion grade, procedural and periprocedural complications, and clinical outcomes were assessed.

Gadolinium ethoxybenzyl diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid enhanced magnetic resonance imaging-guided risk assessment in living donor liver transplant patients with postoperative complications: a pilot study.

Objective: To evaluate whether gadolinium ethoxybenzyl diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA) enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the measurements of quantitative and qualitative parameters on hepatobiliary phase images can predict the risk of postoperative complications in patients underwent living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) PATIENTS AND METHODS: We obtained Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced 3 Tesla MRI before living donor hepatectomy in donors (donor group; n=30) and after LDLT in their recipients (recipient group; n=30). MRIs were evaluated in terms of quantitative and qualitative variables. Quantitative parameters included relative liver enhancement value, biliary signal intensity value, and muscle signal index value.

Angiographic Morphology of Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysms and Their Association with Rupture Risk.

Aim: To estimate the rupture risk of anterior communicating artery (AComA) and AComA-related aneurysms according to their localization, angiographic architecture, and morphological features.

Material And Methods: In this study, 124 patients with AComA and AComA-related anterior system aneurysms were retrospectively evaluated. The aneurysms were classified according to their morphological appearance and angiographic architecture.

Fistulization between liver hydatid cyst and gallbladder. A case report and review of the literature.

The most serious complications of liver hydatid cyst disease are fistulization into biliary tract, compression of adjacent vascular structures, anaphylactic reaction, and perforation. Fistulization between liver hydatid cyst and gallbladder tract is an extremely rare complication with only a few cases reported so far. Herein, we aimed to report a 43-year-old man who was diagnosed as having a cholecysto-hydatid cyst fistula.

Evaluation of risk factors in pneumothorax development after computerized tomography-guided transthoracic biopsy and management of complications.

Aims: This study aims to discuss the relationship between complications and patient characteristics and lesion properties in the transthoracic fine needle aspiration biopsy (TTFNAB) procedures performed for lung lesions and the treatment applied in our clinic to eliminate these complications.

Methods: In this retrospective study conducted from July 2014 to August 2017, the CT-guided TTFNAB was performed on 186 patients (145 males, 41 females) who were considered to have malignancies on their clinical evaluation, CT, and PET CT results.

Results: After 186 CT-guided TTFNAB interventions, a total of 24 (12.

Coexistence of duodenum derived aggressive fibromatosis and paraduodenal hydatid cyst: A case report and review of literature.

Intra-abdominal aggressive fibromatosis is a locally aggressive tumor mostly originating from the mesentery or retroperitoneal space, infiltrating adjacent tissues, and very rarely metastasizing to distant organs. There are only two case reports in the English language literature where intra-abdominal aggressive fibromatosis originated from the intestinal wall. In this study, we aimed to report a case of aggressive fibromatosis originating from the muscularis propria layer of the duodenum and invading pancreas.

Living Liver Donor With Fasciola Hepatica: First Case Report in the Literature.

The major advantage of preoperative magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography is that living liver donor candidates with complicated biliary tracts may not be exposed to unnecessary laparotomy. To the best of our knowledge, the case presented here features a condition so far not seen by the Liver Transplantation Society. A 27-year-old woman who presented to our clinic as a living liver donor candidate was evaluated but did not have a preoperative magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography due to technical factors.

Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy for extensive alveolar echinococcosis: First case report in the literature.

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a zoonotic disease that is caused by Echinococcus multilocularis that affects liver and a variety of organs and tissues. It differs from other echinococcal disease because it shows tumor like behavior in the affected organ and tissues. The treatment of choice is concomitant medical therapy and resection with negative margins.