Endovascular stroke therapy in Austria: a nationwide 1-year experience.

Background And Purpose: Based on a tight network of stroke units (SUs) and interventional centres, endovascular treatment of acute major intracranial vessel occlusion has been widely implemented in Austria. Documentation of all patients in the nationwide SU registry has thereby become mandatory.

Methods: Demographic, clinical and interventional characteristics of patients who underwent endovascular treatment for acute ischaemic stroke in 11 Austrian interventional centres between 1 October 2013 and 30 September 2014 were analysed.

Repeated combined endovascular therapy with milrinone and nimodipine for the treatment of severe vasospasm: preliminary results.

Background: Delayed vasospasm (VSP) following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) remains a major source of morbidity. Milrinone was recently suggested as an invasive VSP treatment option. It is a phosphodiesterase III inhibitor with vasodilating and additional positive inotrope and anti-inflammatory effects.

Aortoduodenal fistula: a late complication of intraluminal exclusion of an infrarenal aortic aneurysm.

During recent years, considerable clinical experience has been gained with endoluminal stent-graft procedures. Several studies have shown promising results up to a period of 4.5 years.

[Endoluminal therapy of infrarenal aortic aneurysms with the Talent system--initial experiences with a new endoprosthesis].

Purpose: To report the early clinical experience with the Talent stent-graft system in the treatment of infrarenal aortic aneurysms.

Materials And Methods: The study group comprised 15 males aged from 51-79 years. A bifurcated Talent stent-graft was implanted in 9 patients with type B or C aneurysms, a tube graft in 6 patients with a type A aneurysm.

Laceration of a benign adrenal adenoma mimicking a splenic rupture.

Lacerations of adrenal tumors are very rare events and have been described for myelolipoma, pheochromocytoma, and cortisol-producing adenoma. We report on a patient who was admitted with suspected splenic rupture. Computed tomography showed a mass 14 cm in diameter adjacent to the spleen, but selective angiography revealed blood supply by the left suprarenal artery.