Radiation Exposure During Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE): A Confounder-Controlled Comparison Between a State-of-the-Art Angiography Unit and a Conventional Angiography unit.

Purpose: To compare radiation exposure of a state-of-the-art and a conventional angiography unit in patients undergoing uterine fibroid embolization (UFE).

Materials And Methods: Between January 2009 and December 2016, 286 patients underwent UFE in our Interdisciplinary Fibroid Center. The inclusion criteria for this retrospective analysis were first-time transarterial embolization for symptomatic fibroids, bilateral embolization, procedures applying a state-of-the-art (Group 1) or a conventional angiography unit (Group 2), and bilateral technical success with an adequate embolization endpoint after the injection of microspheres.

The Use of Iliac Side Branch Devices in Patients with Aortoiliac Aneurysm.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the technical feasibility and short-time patency rate of iliac side branch devices based on the authors' institution's experience.

Materials And Methods: Data of 17 patients (all men) with an aortoiliac aneurysm (median age 72.5 years) who underwent endovascular repair between October 2013 and June 2015 (20 months) at our institution was analyzed retrospectively.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm in Behçet's disease: treatment with endovascular stent graft.

A case of acute rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in a patient with Behçet's disease is reported. The patient was successfully treated by implantation of an endovascular stent graft. The preinterventional diagnostic procedures and the postinterventional follow-up are described and the benefit and risk vs open surgery is discussed.

[Percutaneously implanted permanent vena cava filter: follow-up of 117 consecutive patients].

Purpose: Retrospective review of indication, insertion technique and problems, complications and effectiveness of 5 different filter designs implanted during a period of 5 years. MATERIALS, PATIENTS AND METHODS: We inserted one Filcard-filter, 4 Antheor DC 3 perm.-filters, 17 Trigon/Cardial-filters, 28 Titan-Greenfield-filters (modified hook) and 65 LGM 30 D/U Vena Tech-filters via a femoral (n = 111) or a jugular (n = 4) approach in 115 of 117 patients.

[MR angiography using Gd-DTPA in staging of abdominal aortic aneurysm: a correlation with DSA and CT].

Purpose: To evaluate a contrast-enhanced (CE) MRA sequence for staging AAA.

Methods: In 24 patients (male = 20, female = 4, age = 44-81 y) with known AAA the abdominal aorta and its branches including the iliac arteries were imaged, using a 3D GRE-FISP sequence (1.5 T, TR/TE/FA = 25/6/35, slab = 100-140 mm, 32 part.