Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR
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J Vasc Interv Radiol · Jun 2008
Randomized Controlled TrialBeneficial effects of hypnosis and adverse effects of empathic attention during percutaneous tumor treatment: when being nice does not suffice.
To determine how hypnosis and empathic attention during percutaneous tumor treatments affect pain, anxiety, drug use, and adverse events. ⋯ Procedural hypnosis including empathic attention reduces pain, anxiety, and medication use. Conversely, empathic approaches without hypnosis that provide an external focus of attention and do not enhance patients' self-coping can result in more adverse events. These findings should have major implications in the education of procedural personnel.
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J Vasc Interv Radiol · Jun 2008
Comparative StudyComparison of cutting balloon versus high-pressure balloon angioplasty for resistant venous stenoses of native hemodialysis fistulas.
To compare the technical success, safety, and patency of cutting balloon angioplasty versus high-pressure balloon angioplasty in the treatment of resistant native hemodialysis fistula stenoses. ⋯ The results of this retrospective study suggest that, for resistant stenoses in native hemodialysis fistulas, both high-pressure balloon and cutting balloon angioplasty are effective; however, cutting balloon angioplasty seems to provide more long-standing primary patency at 6-month follow-up.
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J Vasc Interv Radiol · Jun 2008
Evaluation of short-term and long-term complications after emergent internal iliac artery embolization in patients with pelvic trauma.
To assess the incidence of long- and short-term complications following internal iliac artery (IIA) embolization after blunt pelvic trauma. ⋯ IIA embolization is an important means of controlling pelvic arterial hemorrhage. There is no significant increase in the risk of most evaluated long- and short-term complications in trauma patients who underwent IIA embolization versus those who did not. However, IIA embolization is associated with a marginally significantly increased rate of buttock, thigh, or perineal paresthesia.
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J Vasc Interv Radiol · Jun 2008
Replacement of inadvertently discontinued tunneled jugular high-flow central catheters with tract recannulation: technical results and outcome.
To determine the technical and clinical outcomes of recannulating the tracts of inadvertently discontinued high-flow tunneled internal jugular central venous catheters. ⋯ Recannulating tunneled high-flow jugular catheter tracts has a high technical success rate, particularly when they have fallen out less than 24 hours earlier and have a mature tract. The outcomes of recannulated catheters (ie, infection and function rates) are within the upper limit of results of de novo placement and over-the-wire exchange of catheters in the literature.