Peritoneal ports for treatment of intractable ascites.

Purpose: To present clinical data for a new peritoneal port for minimally invasive treatment of intractable ascites that can be used for aspiration in a patient's home.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-eight consecutive peritoneal ports were placed in 27 patients with intractable ascites. Ascites etiology was malignancy in 22 patients, cirrhosis in three, pancreatic duct injury in one, and unknown in one.

Uterine artery embolization: sonographic imaging findings.

Objective: To examine the sonographic and angiographic imaging findings before and after uterine fibroid embolization for symptomatic leiomyoma.

Methods: This prospective study involved 14 premenopausal women who underwent uterine fibroid embolization for symptomatic leiomyoma. Preprocedure sonography with color Doppler imaging was performed.