Giant Cell Arteritis (Temporal Arteritis)
Quick Take on Temporal Arteritis/Giant Cell arteritis (GCA): Nomenclature: Temporal arteritis is also known as Giant cell arteritis (GCA), Horton disease, and cranial arteritis. All
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Mid-Aortic Syndrome, “Abdominal Coarctation”
Etiology: idiopathic, neurofibromatosis, Fibromuscular Dysplasia (FMD), vasculitis, congenital Demographics: Entity seen in children and young adults, presenting with renal failure, juvenile hypertension, or rarely mesenteric
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Takayasu Arteritis (“Pulseless Disease”)
Definition: Granulomatous vasculitis of large arteries. Patient population: Mainly young women. F >> M 8:1, 90% age < 30 Symptoms: stroke, asymmetric blood pressures, pain
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Fibromuscular Dysplasia (FMD)
Definition: idiopathic proliferation of fibrous & muscular (fibromuscular!) tissue in medium & large arteries. This is not inflammatory and not atherosclerotic. FMD is the most
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Arterial Pathology
Intimal Hyperplasia This is the common pathway following vascular injury (traumatic, iatrogenic, angioplasty, stent, etc.). After PTCA, this process usually occurs for 8-12 weeks and
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Pelvic Artery Trauma
Most common arterial bleeders arise from the anterior division internal iliac artery: superior gluteal, obturator, and internal pudendal artery.Embolize with whatever you have – coil,
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Fundamentals in Interventional Radiology
Type of images obtained in IR. Digital Subtraction Agiography (DSA), and spot fluoro, etc. 2. Phase of contrast injection depends on timing of imaging. phases
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Visceral Artery Trauma / Pseudoaneurysm
Laceration of a hepatic artery resulting in extravasation of contrast Angiogram and ultrasound of a hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm The image represents a GDA (gastroduodenal) Pseudoaneurysm secondary
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Traumatic Aortic Injury
∙ Note that most mediastinal widening which can be seen on X-ray in trauma is venous bleeding. AT PRESENTATION -approximately 90% of injuries occur at
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Catheter related infections
https://www.kidney.org/sites/default/files/kdoqi_vasc-access-review2019_v2.pdf Page 115 CDC In these aforementioned guidelines, the diagnosis of catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) is obtained through a set of peripheral blood cultures compared