Prostatic Artery Embolization for the Treatment of Benign Prostate Hyperplasia: Initial Experience From Bahrain.

Introduction: Benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) is a common problem in elderly men. The current gold standard is surgical transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). Prostatic artery embolization (PAE) is an alternative treatment of BPH, which avoids surgical complications.

Preoperative and therapeutic embolization of extremities of bone and soft tissue tumors.

Embolization of bone and soft tissue tumors has a broad range of indications, from curative treatment to palliation. The main purpose of embolization is to occlude as much of the tumor blood supply as possible. The outcome ranges from complete tumor devascularization and necrosis to degrees of ischemia and hypovascularity.

Endovascular management of splenic arteriovenous fistula with giant venous aneurysmal dilatation.

Although splenic artery aneurysm is the commonest visceral and third most common intra abdominal aneurysm after aorta and iliac artery, aneurysm of splenic artery along with aneurysm of splenic vein and arteriovenous fistula is a rare entity. Most of them are <3 cm in diameter. Giant true splenic artery aneurysms are rare and very few lesions >10 cm have been reported.