Percutaneous ultrasound-guided plugged liver biopsy - a single-centre experience.

Background: Liver biopsy is a widely used, safe diagnostic tool utilised by clinicians for the histopathological assessment of the liver. Our study aims to report our experience in patients who underwent ultrasound-guided plugged percutaneous liver biopsy in a tertiary care hospital in India.

Material And Methods: The Institutional Ethical Review Board approved this retrospective study, and informed consent was obtained from all the patients.

Prostate artery embolisation: an initial experience from an Indian perspective.

Purpose: The study aims to report our very early experience with prostate artery embolisation in patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) in an Indian setting.

Material And Methods: This prospective study was approved by the Institutional Ethical Review Board, and informed consent was obtained from all the patients. Four patients with lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia underwent prostate embolisation.

The utility of ultrasound guidance in transjugular liver biopsy: our experience.

Purpose: To demonstrate the utility of ultrasound (US) guidance in improving the safety and efficacy of transjugular liver biopsy (TJLB) by analyzing all the TJLBs performed by us in the last 4 years.

Materials And Methods: Forty-seven patients who underwent TJLB in the last 4 years in our two centers were retrospectively analyzed. US guidance was used for all but for one patient during the two crucial steps of the procedure-for internal jugular vein (IJV) access and during the parenchymal biopsy.

Combination of TACE and Sorafenib Improves Outcomes in BCLC Stages B/C of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Single Centre Experience.

Background And Aim: Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) or sorafenib is recommended for hepatocellular carcinoma BCLC stages B and C respectively. We studied the role of combination of TACE and sorafenib in BCLC stages B/C.

Material And Methods: We undertook an observational study on a cohort of cirrhotics with HCC from August 2010 through October 2014.

Selective internal radiation therapy: 90Y (yttrium) labeled microspheres for liver malignancies (primary and metastatic).

Selective Internal Radiation Therapy is a relatively new technique that irradiates malignant liver lesions using microscopic beads. It provides micro-embolization coupled with high-dose interstitial radiotherapy. Besides colorectal cancers, this therapy has shown benefit in patients with a variety of other tumors including carcinoid tumors, lung, breast, sarcoma, colon, hepatocellular and ocular melanoma.

Chronic pelvic pain due to pelvic congestion syndrome: the role of diagnostic and interventional radiology.

Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is a common cause of gynecologic referral. Pelvic congestion syndrome, which is said to occurs due to ovarian vein incompetence, is a recognized cause of CPP. The aim of this paper is to briefly describe the clinical manifestations, and to review the role of diagnostic and interventional radiology in the management of this probably under-diagnosed condition.

Endovascular therapy for a profunda femoris artery aneurysm which ruptured following intravenous thrombolysis.

Arterial aneurysms are a relative contraindication for systemic thrombolytic therapy due to the risk of rupture. This case report describes rupture of a rare profunda artery aneurysm (PFAA) following systemic thrombolysis for myocardial infarction. Subsequent imaging and endovascular management of this rare complication is presented with a brief discussion.

Multidetector CT appearances of splanchnic arterial pathology.

Recent advances in multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) technology have enabled the production of high-resolution diagnostic images of the visceral vessels. The potential of MDCT in relation to splanchnic artery pathology is still being realized, but it already provides a credible quick, non-invasive, low-dose alternative to digital subtraction angiography. A variety of categories of splanchnic artery pathology are demonstrated, including stenosis and occlusion (due to extrinsic compression, mural thrombus, and atherosclerosis), aneurysms, dissection, and haemorrhage.

Retrograde or antegrade double-pigtail stent placement for malignant ureteric obstruction?

Aim: To determine the optimum approach for double-pigtail stent placement in malignant ureteric obstruction.

Patients And Methods: Retrograde stent placement was attempted in a consecutive series of patients presenting with malignant ureteric obstruction. If retrograde stent placement was unsuccessful, percutaneous nephrostomy was performed immediately followed by elective antegrade stent placement.

Changes in blood coagulability as it traverses the ischemic limb.

Objective: We undertook this study to determine whether changes in blood coagulability associated with peripheral arterial occlusive disease are due to contact with the atherosclerotic arterial wall or passage through distal ischemic tissue.

Methods: Thirty patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease undergoing angiography participated in the study. Ankle-brachial pressure index was recorded before intervention.

Case report: retrocaval ureter: MR appearances.

We present a case of retrocaval ureter and its MR appearances. This is the first case in reported literature. The findings on i.

Skin sparing in interventional radiology: the effect of copper filtration.

Complex and lengthy interventional radiological techniques have resulted in a number of patients developing skin reactions in recent years. To safeguard against these side effects, we have investigated the degree to which entrance skin dose can be reduced by inserting 0.18 mm and 0.

Tomato phosphate transporter genes are differentially regulated in plant tissues by phosphorus.

Phosphorus is a major nutrient acquired by roots via high-affinity inorganic phosphate (Pi) transporters. In this paper, we describe the tissue-specific regulation of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) Pi-transporter genes by Pi.