Longstanding tracheobronchomalacia: A forgotten cause of severe cough and its response to roflumilast.

This case report describes a patient with moderately severe tracheobronchomalacia following mycoplasma pneumonia. The patient was considered to have obstructive lung disease despite no prior smoking or lung disease and failure to respond to standard treatment. The possibility of tracheal pathology causing cough and sputum was not considered in 23yrs confirming this to be a "forgotten zone".

Ureteral stent placement without postprocedural nephrostomy tube: experience in 41 patients.

Purpose: To evaluate one-stage antegrade ureteral stent placement without postprocedural nephrostomy tube.

Materials And Methods: Tubeless ureteral stent insertion was attempted in 41 (30 men, 11 women; eight, benign obstruction; nine outpatients) of 97 adults (56 excluded). Patients were clinically stable with known ureteral obstruction and had been referred for antegrade ureteral stent insertion.

Embolization of a renal artery aneurysm using ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (Onyx).

Purpose: To report the embolization of a renal artery aneurysm using Onyx, a radiopaque nonadhesive liquid embolic agent.

Case Report: A 28-year-old woman with hypertension and fibromuscular dysplasia presented with a 20-mm renal artery aneurysm. In order to avoid any migration of embolic material into the parent vessel, a compliant balloon was inflated to exclude the aneurysm from the blood flow while injecting the liquid embolic agent.