Emergency Endovascular Interventions on Descending Thoracic Aorta: A Single-Center Experience by Piotr Buczkowski, Mateusz Puslecki, Marcin Ligowski, Marek Dabrowski, Sebastian Stefaniak, Zuzanna Fryska, Jerzy Kulesza, Robert Juszkat, Marek Jemielity, Bartlomiej Perek

“…Early after the procedure, one individual developed transient paraparesis (1.3%). No other serious stent-graft-related adverse events were noted within the postdischarge follow-up period. …”
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Endobronchial Electrocautery and Argon Plasma Coagulation: A Practical Approach by Alain Tremblay, Charles-Hugo Marquette

“…Malignant airway obstruction, hemoptysis, web-like stenosis, stent related granulation tissue and early lung carcinomas are the most common indications for treatment. …”
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Optical Coherence Tomographic Study of a Chronically Retained Coronary Guidewire by Natasha Corballis, Sreekumar Sulfi, Alisdair Ryding

“…This is a case of an urgent percutaneous coronary angioplasty in which a guidewire became entrapped behind a bare metal stent with subsequent fracture of the core filament, which could not be retrieved. …”
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Relationship Between Serum HMGB1 and RAGE Levels and Restenosis in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients Complicated With Lower Extremity Vascular Disease: A Retrospective Study by Jia T, Zhang X, Li L, Jiang X, Wang M

“…Patients were divided into in-stent restenosis (ISR) (n=38) and none-in-stent restenosis (NISR) (n=58) groups based on the occurrence of ISR. …”
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Isolated external iliac artery aneurysm in a patient without any concomitant vascular disease by Patrick D. Conroy, MD, Jennifer Li, MD, Allen Hamdan, MD

“…We present the case of an asymptomatic isolated external iliac artery aneurysm with no other concomitant vascular disease in a middle-aged man, treated with a stent graft.…”
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Chyluria after Partial Nephrectomy: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Ronald J. Kim, Fadi N. Joudi

“…The patient was initially treated conservatively, with a medium-chain fatty acid diet and then ureteral stenting. His stent was eventually removed and his chlyuria resolved 14 weeks later.…”
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Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Pseudoachalasia, and Gastric Cancer by Dilsa Mizrak, Ali Alkan, Batuhan Erdogdu, Gungor Utkan

“…Here, we report a 41-year-old woman with symptoms of achalasia where repeated treatment of pneumatic dilation and stent replacement was unsuccessful; therefore, surgery was performed. …”
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Prevention and Treatment of Esophageal Stenosis after Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection for Early Esophageal Cancer by Jing Wen, Zhongsheng Lu, Qingsen Liu

“…These methods include prevention via pharmacological treatment, endoscopic autologous cell transplantation, endoscopic esophageal dilatation, and stent placement. This short review will focus on direct prevention and treatment, which may help guide the way forward.…”
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Recurrent Syncope Associated with Lung Cancer by Dingguo Zhang, Liansheng Wang, Zhijian Yang

“…The patient was treated with coronary stent transplantation. However, scope occurred again and the elevated tumor makers cytokeratin-19-fragment and neuron-specific enolase revealed the bronchogenic carcinoma, which was confirmed by enhanced CT examination. …”
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Ureteroarterial Fistula from Ureteral Stump: A Challenging Case by Pietro Pozzilli, Massimo Lenti, Stefano Mosca, Elisabetta Nunzi, Luigi Mearini

“…The difficult diagnosis and treatment by contemporary use of endovascular stent placement and ureteral occlusion by mean of metallic coils and Onyx injection are discussed.…”
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Acute Pancreatitis Secondary to Hemobilia after Percutaneous Liver Biopsy: A Rare Complication of a Common Procedure, Presenting in an Atypical Fashion by Ramy Mansour, Justin Miller

“…She was successfully treated with ERCP, sphincterotomy, balloon sweep, and stent placement. Angiography and transcatheter embolization were not required.…”
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Pediatric endoscopic retrograde pancreatography expertise in chronic pancreatitis: a single-center analysis by Hongxi Guo, Juan Luo, Hu Yang, Jun Yang, Hongqiang Bian, Xufei Duan, Xin Wang

“…Stent replacements occurred on average 2.2 times (range 1–5) at intervals of 3–6 months. …”
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Reattempt Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Chronic Total Occlusions after Prior Failures: A Single-Center Analysis of Strategies and Outcomes by Mingqiang Fu, Shufu Chang, Lei Ge, Dong Huang, Kang Yao, Feng Zhang, Qing Qin, Jianying Ma, Juying Qian, Junbo Ge

“…Of the patients, 47.1% had a prior myocardial infarction and 70.4% underwent stent implantation previously, while the in-stent occlusion rate was 6.6%. …”
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Anomalous Right Subclavian Artery-Esophageal Fistulae by Courtney Brooke Shires, Michael J. Rohrer

“…Therefore, endovascular covered stent grafts were deployed spanning the segment of the subclavian artery in continuity with the esophagus, via a right brachial artery approach. …”
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Recurrent carotid artery stenosis successfully and safely treated with drug-coated balloon angioplasty under flow reversal by Marianna Pavlyha, MD, Steven Farley, MD, Wesley S. Moore, MD

“…A 73-year-old woman presented with recurrent right carotid artery restenosis following two carotid endarterectomies with patch angioplasty and in-sent restenosis after subsequent transcarotid artery revascularization. We performed in-stent paclitaxel-coated balloon angioplasty under flow reversal with resolution of the lesion on imaging and improvement in symptoms. …”
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Robert’s uterus treated with ultrasound-guided laparoscopy and hysteroscopy: a case report by Jiying Li, Hongping Yue, Hongwen Hu, Yin Li, Huanhuan Sheng, Chengxing Wu

“…We performed a combined hysteroscopy and laparoscopy to excise the septum and endometrial cyst in the uterine cavity, and we inserted a uterine cavity stent to prevent postoperative intrauterine adhesions. …”
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Restenosis and Therapy by Laszlo Denes, Laszlo Entz, Veronika Jancsik

“…Those could be useful markers of carotid restenosis after stent implantation. Gene therapy and therapeutic angiogenesis is proposed for therapy in restenosis. …”
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Unique Findings and Novel Treatment Strategy of a Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm Associated with a Significant Pericardial Effusion by Osayi Lawani, Rick Ganim

“…We will also present its unusual repair using a long drug-eluting stent as a scaffold to overlap covered coronary stents used to help exclude the aneurysm.…”
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A Novel Double Side Branch Protection Technique for a Left Main Trifurcation Lesion: Simultaneous Jailed Balloon and Jailed Corsair Technique by Masahito Munakata, Yohei Numasawa, Shiro Ishikawa, Takashi Koyama

“…We herein describe a 72-year-old man with angina pectoris who was successfully treated with percutaneous coronary stent implantation for a left main trifurcation lesion. …”
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Mediastinal Hematoma and Tracheal Compression following Transradial Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Nathaniel R. Smilowitz, Muhamed Saric, Michael J. Attubato, James N. Slater

“…Endovascular repair of the brachiocephalic artery was achieved with covered stent placement at the neck of the pseudoaneurysm. …”
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