Predelivery uterine arteries embolization in patients affected by placental implant anomalies.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to report on a single center experience of managing patients affected by placenta previa major and/or accretism by embolizing uterine arteries immediately before the cesarean delivery to reduce blood loss and secondary the rate of hysterectomies.

Materials And Methods: Sixty-nine patients have been prospectively enrolled. Inclusion criteria were radiological diagnosis of placenta anomalies and risk factors for peri/postpartum hemorrhage.

Situs inversus with levocardia, infrahepatic interruption of the inferior vena cava, and azygos continuation: a case report.

Situs inversus incompletus is a rare congenital condition in which the major abdominal organs are reversed or mirrored from their normal positions. It is often associated with multiple congenital anomalies. We present the case of a 38-year-old woman with dyspnea and a clinical history of chronic kidney disease and kidney transplantation.

Role of interventional radiology in treating obstetric haemorrhages.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and the safety of selective uterine artery embolisation in patients with a high risk of haemorrhage due to obstetric issues.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the angiographic examinations of 63 patients (average age ± SD, 32.6 years ± 4.

Focus on the intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas.

Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) are rare pancreatic tumours, accounting for less of 1-2% of all neoplasms of the gland. Main characteristics of IPMNs are their favourable prognosis as these pre-malignant or frankly malignant lesions are usually slow-growing tumours and radical surgery is frequently possible. According with the localization of the lesions, three different entities are identified: the main-duct IPMN (type I), the branch-duct IPMN (type II) and the mixed type (type III, involving both the main pancreatic duct and side branches).

Hepatic angiomyolipoma and intramural small intestinal schwannoma: a coincidence or a relationship?

We report a case of hepatic angiomyolipoma associated to a small bowel schwannoma in a 40-years old woman. Both lesions were asyntomatic. Histologically, hepatic angiomyolipoma showed oncocytic features and scanty adipose tissue, the tumor cells expressed desmin, smooth muscle actin, S-100 protein and HMB45.

Value of MRI in three patients with major vascular injuries after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

The aim of this study was to describe three cases of major vascular injuries after laparoscopic cholecystectomy depicted on magnetic resonance (MR) examination. Three female patients (mean age, 32 years; range, 22-39 years) were studied with clinical suspicion of bilio-vascular injuries after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. All MR examinations were performed within 24 h after the laparoscopic procedure.

Value of MR cholangiography in patients with iatrogenic bile duct injury after cholecystectomy.

Objective: Our aim was to determine the diagnostic role of MR cholangiography in the evaluation of iatrogenic bile duct injuries after cholecystectomy.

Subjects And Methods: Nineteen patients (14 women and five men; mean age, 47 years; age range, 24-75 years) with suspected bile duct injury as a result of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (17 patients) and open cholecystectomy (two patients) underwent MR cholangiography. MR images were evaluated for bile duct discontinuity, presence or absence of biliary dilation, stricture, excision injury, free fluid, and collections.

The use of MRCP in the detection of pancreatic injuries after blunt trauma.

From January 2000 to November 2001, five consecutive, hemodynamically stable trauma patients (age range 8-69 years, mean age 34 years) with parenchymal injuries were evaluated by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP). One patient also underwent a MRCP-facilitated secretin test. MRI depicted pancreatic laceration in two patients, ductal disruption and a post-traumatic intraparenchymal pseudocyst in one, migrating pancreatic fluid collection in the mediastinal space with disruption in another, and main pancreatic duct rupture and dilatation in the patient evaluated with MRCP following secretin administration.