Temporary Ureter Occlusion with Simultaneous Urinary Diversion via a Single-Access Route Using a 4-French Balloon Catheter and a Pigtail Nephrostomy Drainage Catheter.

: This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of temporary ureteral occlusion combined with urinary diversion using a single-access route created by inserting a balloon catheter through a pigtail nephrostomy drainage catheter. With this approach, we aimed to offer an alternative for patients with ureteral leaks who are suboptimal surgical candidates. : This retrospective study included nine patients (eight of which were bilateral cases and one was unilateral, totaling seventeen cases) who underwent the surgery between September 2023 and March 2024.

Clinical Outcomes and Safety of Transcatheter Arterial Embolization in Patients with Traumatic or Spontaneous Psoas and Retroperitoneal Hemorrhage.

We aimed to assess the effectiveness and safety of transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) in the management of spontaneous or traumatic psoas and/or retroperitoneal hemorrhage. This single-center retrospective study enrolled 36 patients who underwent TAE for the treatment of psoas and/or retroperitoneal hemorrhage between May 2016 and February 2024. The patients' mean age was 61.

Evaluating Image Quality and Radiation Dose in Low-Dose Thoraco-Abdominal CT Angiography with a Tin Filter for Patients with Aortic Disease.

We aimed to compared radiation exposure and image quality between tin-filter-based and standard dose thoraco-abdominal computed tomography angiography (TACTA) protocols, aiming to address a gap in the existing literature. In this retrospective study, ninety consecutive patients undergoing TACTA were included. Of these, 45 followed a routine standard-dose protocol (ST100kV), and 45 underwent a low-dose protocol with a tin filter (TF100kV).

Percutaneous insertion of long-covered biliary stents in patients with malignant duodenobiliary stricture.

Objective: To investigate the technical feasibility, safety, and efficacy of a long-covered biliary stent in patients with malignant duodenobiliary stricture.

Methods: This retrospective study enrolled 57 consecutive patients (34 men, 23 women; mean age, 64 years; range, 32-85 years) who presented with malignant duodenobiliary stricture between February 2019 and November 2020. All patients were treated with a long (18 or 23 cm)-covered biliary stent.

Environmental Risk Factors for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

Typically, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is clinically characterized by slow vertical saccades or supranuclear gaze palsy, levodopa-resistant parkinsonism with predominant axial symptoms, and cognitive executive impairment. Over the past decades, various PSP phenotypes, including PSP with predominant parkinsonism, PSP with corticobasal syndrome, PSP with progressive gait freezing, and PSP with predominant frontal dysfunction, have been identified from pathologically confirmed cases. Expanding knowledge led to new diagnostic criteria for PSP that with increased disease awareness led to increased PSP prevalence estimates.

Clinical characteristics and outcomes among older nursing home residents hospitalized with pneumonia.

Background: Due to population aging, the number of cases of pneumonia in nursing homes in South Korea has been increasing. This study investigated the characteristics and clinical outcomes in nursing home residents with pneumonia admitted to a tertiary hospital.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted of patients transferred to the tertiary hospital from nursing homes between August 2009 and October 2016.

Comparison of forearm rotation allowed by different types of upper extremity immobilization.

Background: The purpose of this study was to compare the active forearm pronation and supination allowed by a short arm splint, short arm cast, sugar tong splint, long arm splint, and long arm cast in normal, healthy subjects.

Methods: Forty healthy, right-handed volunteers (twenty men and twenty women) with a mean age of thirty-five years (range, twenty-three to sixty-six years) were recruited. Two examiners used a goniometer developed for the study to measure the active forearm supination and pronation in each subject with and without the application of the different types of upper extremity immobilization.