The radiological treatment of hepatic artery aneurysms.

Improvements in the quality and availability of cross-sectional imaging should result in more frequent detection of hepatic artery aneurysms before rupture. Interventional radiological treatment for extra-hepatic lesions has not previously been discussed in the literature. We present two cases of extra-hepatic hepatic artery aneurysms treated using different endovascular techniques and discuss the relative merits of these approaches.

Case report: cellist's elbow?--vascular entrapment in association with the ligament of Struthers.

We present a case of forearm claudication due to ulnar artery entrapment by the ligament of Struthers. Anatomical, radiological and surgical features of this uncommon syndrome are discussed.

Successful treatment by balloon venoplasty and stent insertion of obstruction of the superior vena cava by an endocardial pacemaker lead.

A 63 year old man with symptomatic obstruction of the superior vena cava associated with an indwelling pacemaker was successfully treated with balloon venoplasty and stent insertion. He was symptom free with normal pacemaker function nine months later.

Adult respiratory distress syndrome after attempted strangulation.

We describe a case of severe acute lung injury after attempted strangulation. The patient presented initially with cerebral irritability and florid, noncardiogenic pulmonary oedema which were followed by a prolonged period of the adult respiratory distress syndrome, severe sepsis and multiple system organ failure, although the patient eventually survived. The pulmonary injury following strangulation is proposed to be a result of the generation of marked subatmospheric pressures within the lungs during vigorous inspiration against an obstructed airway, although the processes involved in the so-called neurogenic pulmonary oedema are difficult to exclude.