Angiographic embolization for gastroduodenal hemorrhage: safety, efficacy, and predictors of outcome.

Objective: To examine the safety, efficacy, and predictors of outcome of angiographic embolization in the management of gastroduodenal hemorrhage.

Design: Retrospective record review.

Setting: University-affiliated tertiary care center.

Transcatheter embolization of hypogastric artery aneurysms: lessons learned.

Transcatheter embolization of hypogastric artery aneurysms has become an attractive therapeutic alternative for many patients with this difficult lesion. Because of the increasing use of stent grafting for treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms, transcatheter embolization of normal-caliber hypogastric arteries has become an almost routine procedure, usually accomplished with little morbidity. Applying this treatment to aneurysmal hypogastric arteries, however, involves greater technical complexity and a significantly higher risk of ischemic complications.

Morbidity and mortality associated with renal insufficiency and endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms: a 5-year experience.

To evaluate the outcome of patients with renal insufficiency undergoing endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), data were prospectively collected between 1998 and 2003 on patients undergoing elective repair of their AAA with a stent graft. The patients were divided into 2 groups: those with serum creatinine (Crs) concentrations <1.2 (Group A) and those with Crs > or =1.