Interventional treatment of renal angiomyolipoma: immediate results and clinical and radiological follow-up of 4.5 years.

Background: Renal angiomyolipoma is rare, but many of these patients may have an acute debut with severe bleeding. These patients need urgent treatment with interventional embolization as an attractive option.

Purpose: To investigate the technical and clinical effect of this treatment and to evaluate long-term clinical outcomes with clinical control and radiological imaging.

High success rate after arterial renal embolisation.

Introduction: The objective of this study was to present patients who underwent either elective or acute renal embolisation in a single centre where embolisation was available at all hours.

Methods: The records of all patients who underwent transcatheter arterial embolisation (TAE) at Odense University Hospital from October 2010 to July 2013 were extracted retrospectively and examined to determine the indication for treatment, procedural details and complications. Patients were divided into four groups: renal cancer, trauma, angiomyolipoma (AML) and others.

Is smoking a risk factor for proliferative diabetic retinopathy in type 1 diabetes?

Aim: The aim was to evaluate if smoking was a risk factor for proliferative retinopathy (PDR) in a 25-year follow-up study.

Methods: 201 persons from a population-based cohort of Danish type 1 diabetic patients were examined at baseline and again 25 years later. At both examinations the patients were asked about their smoking habits.