Clinical investigation of fertility after uterine artery embolization.

Background: Uterine artery embolization is an effective and safe technique for the treatment of uterine fibroids, but its use remains controversial for women who wish to procreate.

Objective: This study aimed to study the clinical, anatomic, and obstetrical results of uterine artery embolization in patients of childbearing age not eligible for myomectomy.

Study Design: This was a retrospective cohort study of 398 female patients under the age of 43 years who were treated by uterine artery embolization between 2003 and 2017 for symptomatic fibroids and/or adenomyosis.

[Varicocele in adolescents. Treatment by sclerotherapy and percutaneous embolization: reflections on the method. Apropos of 23 cases].

Objective: The authors report their experience of the treatment of varicocele in adolescents. As a result of progress in interventional radiology and embolization techniques, they have used a technique combining sclerotherapy and percutaneous embolization since 1993.

Material And Methods: Since 1993, twenty three adolescents between the ages of 11 and and 17 years (mean = 14.

Dissection of the abdominal aorta in blunt trauma: management by percutaneous stent placement.

We implanted stents in three patients who had traumatic abdominal aortic dissections, complicated by right limb ischemia in one case. The circulating false channel extended to the left iliac artery in one case and to both iliac arteries in the last case. Diagnosis and radiological follow-up included ultrasound, computed tomography, and arteriography.

Intravascular stenting of traumatic abdominal aortic dissection.

Purpose: We describe the case of a 34-year-old man with blunt abdominal trauma. Initial abdominal computed tomography scan showed retroperitoneal hematoma, pancreatic contusion, multiple fractures of the transverse process in the thoraco-lumbar spine, and infrarenal aortic dissection.

Method: Angiography revealed that the aortic dissection originated proximal to the inferior mesenteric artery and extended down to the left common iliac artery without vascular obliteration.

Use of endovascular stents for acute aortic dissection: an experimental study.

This study was designed to evaluate the potential obliteration of an experimental aortic dissection using an intravascular stent introduced via the femoral artery. Twenty-two adult dogs were divided into four groups: in group A (n = 6) a thoracoabdominal aortic dissection was surgically created to observe the natural course of this lesion; in group B (n = 6) a nitinol coil graft was introduced into the aorta via the femoral artery; in group C (n = 3) a nitinol coil graft was introduced via the femoral artery into a dissected aorta in an attempt to obliterate the dissection; and in group D (n = 7) an expandable intraluminal vascular graft (Palmaz stent) was introduced via the femoral artery into a dissected aorta in an attempt to obliterate the dissection. Arteriographic evaluation was performed postoperatively and again 6 weeks later before the aortas were explanted.