Inferior Vena Cava Filters: Adherence to Clinical Practice Guidelines Recommendations, Retrieval Rates, and Filter Complications in a Tertiary Hospital.

The present study evaluated the adherence to guideline recommendations regarding the indication for inferior vena cava filter (IVCF) placement, retrieval rates, complications, thrombotic recurrences, and mortality. Patients in whom an IVCF was placed between 2015 and 2020 in a tertiary hospital were retrospectively included. We considered absolute indication of IVCF placement if all the guidelines evaluated agreed on the indication, relative indication if only some guidelines recommended it and without indication if none of the evaluated guidelines recommended it.

Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage for biliary obstruction in perihilar cholangiocarcinoma: a 10-year analysis of safety and outcomes using the CCI index.

Purpose: To evaluate percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) safety and efficacy in patients with perihilar cholangiocarcinoma (PCCA).

Methods: This retrospective observational study included patients with PCCA and obstructive cholestasis referred for a PTBD in our institution between 2010 and 2020. Technical and clinical success rates and major complication and mortality rates one month after PTBD were used as main variables.

Perspectives for yttrium-90 radioembolization as therapeutic option for hepatocellular carcinoma.

The therapeutic management of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has achieved great advances in the past few years. Before the publication of the SHARP clinical trial, which showed the effectiveness of sorafenib in patients with advanced HCC, no effective systemic therapy was available and only transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) had shown an impact on survival in clinical trials.

Ichthyosis: case report in a Colombian man with genetic alterations in ABCA12 and HRNR genes.

Background: Ichthyosis is a heterogeneous group of diseases caused by genetic disorders related to skin formation. They are characterized by generalized dry skin, scaling, hyperkeratosis and frequently associated with erythroderma. Among its different types, harlequin ichthyosis (HI) stands out due to its severity.

Diffuse Renal Cortical Hemorrhage in the Setting of Subcapsular Hematoma: Diagnosis and Treatment with Embolization.

Purpose: To describe radiologic findings, embolization technique, and clinical outcomes in patients with renal subcapsular hematoma and diffuse cortical hemorrhage.

Materials And Methods: Ten patients with renal subcapsular hematoma and diffuse cortical hemorrhage were reviewed. Nine of the 10 had undergone procedures (nephrostomy, n = 4; biopsy, n = 4; embolization of a cerebral aneurysm, n = 1) and 1 patient was receiving oral anticoagulation.

Endovascular Revascularization of Hemodialysis Thrombosed Grafts with the Hydrodynamic Thrombectomy Catheter. Our 7-Year Experience.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the hydrodynamic thrombectomy catheter (AngioJet DVX) in the salvage of thrombosed hemodialysis vascular grafts.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study was designed, including all patients with occluded arteriovenous grafts treated with the AngioJet system between 2007 and 2014 in our institution. Outcomes included technical success, clinical success, complications, and primary and secondary patencies.

Effect of a postoperative exercise program on arteriovenous fistula maturation: A randomized controlled trial.

Exercises after arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation may help to improve maturation; however, their usefulness has only been examined in indirect, non-comparative studies or small trials. Between June 2013 and November 2014, we included all ambulatory patients with stages 5-5D chronic kidney disease who were candidates for the creation of a native AVF in our center. After surgery, all patients were randomized to an exercise group or a control group with single-blind control.

Thermodilution versus saline dilution method for vascular access blood flow measurement in high-flux and on-line hemodiafiltration.

Purpose: Access blood flow (Qa) measurements are one of the most important components in vascular access monitoring programs, even though these indirect methods have only been validated with high-flux hemodialysis (HF; pump flow [Qb] 300 mL/min). This study was to assess the utility from thermodilution (BTM) with respect to the saline dilution method (SDM) in HF and on-line hemodiafiltration (OL-HDF) with routinely prescribed parameters in comparison with validation conditions.

Methods: Three consecutive sessions were assessed in 31 hemodialysis patients (27AVF).

Transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy: is antibiotic prophylaxis necessary?

The aim of this study was to assess infectious complications in transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy (TRUSPB), comparing two groups of patients: one group with antibiotic prophylaxis and the other without prophylaxis. A total of 1,018 TRUSPBs were performed from April 1996 to July 2003. No antibiotic prophylaxis was given in the first 614; the remaining 404 procedures were performed under antibiotic prophylaxis.