Effect of Transluminal Injection of Foam Sclerotherapy Combined with Endovenous Thermal Ablation of Varicose Veins.

Objective: The combination of endovenous therapies with stab avulsion or ultrasound guided foam sclerotherapy is widely performed. However, these conventional techniques tend to result in incomplete avulsions or persistent varicosities.

Methods: One hundred and thirteen legs in 97 consecutive patients who underwent 1470 nm laser ablation for great saphenous varicose veins were enrolled.

A case of recurrent varicose veins due to the multiple fistulas from superficial femoral artery.

Recurrent varicose veins are considered to be caused by the recurrence of reflux but rarely may be secondary to other pathologies. A 39-year-old man complained of right lower leg skin pigmentation, pain and fatigue for several years. Duplex ultrasound revealed that the great saphenous vein diameter at the saphenofemoral junction level was 7.

Long-Term (>10 Years) clinical outcomes of first-in-human biodegradable poly-l-lactic acid coronary stents: Igaki-Tamai stents.

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term safety of the Igaki-Tamai stent, the first-in-human fully biodegradable coronary stent made of poly-l-lactic acid.

Methods And Results: Between September 1998 and April 2000, 50 patients with 63 lesions were treated electively with 84 Igaki-Tamai stents. Overall clinical follow-up (>10 years) of major adverse cardiac events and rates of scaffold thrombosis was analyzed together with the results of angiography and intravascular ultrasound.

Kinematics of the uterus: cine mode MR imaging.

Cine mode magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has allowed evaluation of kinematics of the pelvis. Visualization of dynamic changes under strain facilitates evaluation of prolapses and adhesions between organs. The uterus, an organ of smooth muscle, has an inherent contractility that characterizes it as different from other visceral organs.