Despite recent advances in perioperative support care, surgery for obstructive jaundice is
still associated with significant morbidity and mortality. For this reason, preoperative …

During a 28-year period from 1955 to 1983, two cases of massive repetitive arterial
thromboembolism from nonaneurysmal aortic mural thrombus were diagnosed antemortem and …

We report two patients with Turner syndrome who had aortic dissection and rupture, one with
prior repair of coarctation. We also note the high incidence (8.8%) of unrecognized aortic …

The results of selective intraarterial vasopressin-infusion therapy and embolization therapy
were compared in two groups of patients with major gastrointestinal hemorrhage. The site of …

Thirty patients with a suspected cardiac or pericardial mass underwent MR imaging. Twenty-six
also had two-dimensional (2D) echocardiography, and three also had CT; one patient …

A group of 145 high-risk patients who underwent angiography after administration of the
nonionic contrast agent iohexol were monitored for the development of acute renal dysfunction. …

Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTD) has been advocated as a method of
achieving biliary decompression in patients with cholangitis. However, the risk of PTD in these …

To evaluate the use of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in the detection of coronary artery
bypass grafts (CABGs), 20 patients with grafts underwent electrocardiographic-gated MR …

Thirty-four patients, 1 month to 63 years old, with known or suspected congenital abnormalities
of the aortic arch underwent magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Sixteen patients were …

The authors describe a child with Budd-Chiari syndrome secondary to membranous
obstruction of the hepatic veins and a web in the inferior vena cava. Transhepatic catheter …