Paclitaxel drug-coated balloon angioplasty for the treatment of failing arteriovenous fistulas: a single-center experience.

To report our experience of angioplasty with Lutonix (Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., Tempe, AZ) drug-coated balloon (DCB) for the treatment of failing arteriovenous fistulas (AVF). Retrospective, single-center analysis consisting of 14 patients treated with Lutonix paclitaxel DCBs in the period from July 2015 through April 2017.

[Ambulatory ligation of the sapheno-femoral junction. Complement of Dr. Muller's ambulatory phlebectomy technique].

The early diagnosis of incompetence of the sapheno-femoral junction is made possible by combined ultrasonography/Doppler. Thus when the great saphenous vein is not too dilated and is not the site of severe ectasia, ligation of the junction may be sufficient to deal with malfunction of the latter. This is an outpatient procedure.

Pelvic arteriovenous fistulas: therapeutic strategy in five cases.

Pelvic arteriovenous fistulas are rare. They may be defined as arteriovenous communications developing in the pelvis from the internal iliac artery, the origin of its posterior trunk or branches of its anterior trunk. Congenital arteriovenous malformations, more common in women, and posttraumatic arteriovenous fistulas are the two main etiological forms.