Conclusion: Percutaneous embolization reduces the reappearance of epistaxis and the mean length of hospital stay for patients with intractable epistaxis or juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JNA).
Objectives: To assess whether percutaneous embolization is effective for the treatment of intractable epistaxis and JNA.
Patients And Methods: Twenty-eight patients with intractable posterior epistaxis treated by embolization (25 males; m = 59.
We report the case of a 48-year-old woman whose recurrent coital headache ceased following intracranial internal carotid artery aneurysm embolization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To describe adverse outcomes after appendectomy for acute appendicitis and to analyze the association between these outcomes and specific characteristics of the patient and hospital admission.
Material And Methods: We studied a cohort of 792 patients who underwent appendectomy for acute appendicitis. Postoperative complications, reoperations and deaths were prospectively studied and all readmissions were retrospectively identified.