Management of acute and chronic iliofemoral venous outflow obstruction: a multidisciplinary team consensus.

The aim of this manuscript was to establish a consensus for the management of acute and chronic venous obstruction among specialists in the UK. Specialist physicians representing vascular surgery, interventional radiology and hematology were invited to 3 meetings to discuss management of acute and chronic iliofemoral obstruction. The meetings outlined controversial areas, included a topic-by-topic review; and on completion reached a consensus when greater than 80% agreement was reached on each topic.

The Discord Outcome Analysis (DOA) as a Reporting Standard at Three Months and Five Years in Randomised Varicose Vein Treatment Trials.

Objectives: Treatment success for chronic superficial venous insufficiency could be defined as an improvement in three domains: (i) disease specific quality of life, (ii) clinical severity, (iii) reflux. The aim was to report these at five years using a Venn diagram to profile the outcomes: a discord outcome analysis (DOA).

Methods: Patients (n = 50 patients/legs in each treated group) were randomised to endovenous laser ablation (EVLA) with concurrent phlebectomies vs.

Percutaneous treatment of placenta percreta using coil embolization.

Purpose: To report the use of embolotherapy to avoid hysterectomy in rare placenta percreta.

Case Report: A pregnant 34-year-old woman (gravida 3, para 2) was admitted with premature rupture of membranes and vaginal bleeding in the 32nd week. Prenatal B-mode and Doppler ultrasound revealed marked hypervascularity of the placenta with disruption of the uterine-bladder interface consistent with placenta percreta.

Osteodensitometry of human heel bones by MR spin-echo imaging: comparison with MR gradient-echo imaging and quantitative computed tomography.

The aim of the study was to investigate whether quantitative magnetic resonance (MR) fast spin-echo (FSE) imaging with moderate spatial resolution enables osteodensitometry in peripheral yellow bone marrow. Signal intensities in T1-weighted FSE images from yellow bone marrow indicate the amount of adipose tissue per volume. The signal intensity in marrow regions with spongy bone was assessed and compared to signal intensity of pure fatty marrow (100%).

Magnetic resonance osteodensitometry in human heel bones: correlation with quantitative computed tomography using different measuring parameters.

Rationale And Objectives: Density of trabecular bone structures in human heel bones was assessed by 3D magnetic resonance (MR) gradient echo imaging (GEI) with multiple echoes. Different spatial resolutions were applied to investigate the influence of the pixel size on signal characteristics in GEI and to find suitable measuring parameters for a maximum correlation between GEI and bone mineral density obtained by quantitative computed tomography (QCT).

Methods: Thirty-five patients aged 31 to 65 years with suspected osteoporosis underwent MR and QCT examinations of the heel bones.

[Treatment of osteoid osteoma with CT-guided drilling and ethanol instillation].

History And Clinical Findings: For 6 months a 25-year-old man had been suffering from intermittent pain in the left upper leg, alleviated by aspirin. Physical examination was unremarkable: local pain was not elicited.

Investigations: Routine radiology and computed tomography confirmed the clinically suspected diagnosis of intracortical osteoid osteoma of the femur.

Effects of kidney transplantation on the renin-angiotensin systems of the recipients.

To investigate the effects of renal transplantation on the plasma and local kidney renin-angiotensin systems of the recipients the left kidneys of 13 adult male Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) and 13 stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) were transplanted to bilaterally nephrectomized (WKYxSHRSP)-F1 hybrids. Nine unilaterally nephrectomized WKY and nine SHRSP served as controls. Four weeks after surgery recipients of an SHRSP kidney but not recipients of a WKY kidney had significant post-transplantation hypertension.