Vascular and Endovascular Review

November 2022

The Importance of Early Thrombus Removal

Jason Cottrell, Mitchell Silver Abstract Historically, anticoagulation has been the primary treatment for acute lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT) with or without thrombolysis. Despite large amounts of clinical research data supporting an ‘open vein hypothesis’, which favours early thrombus removal, clinicians have been hesitant to take this option due to a historically high risk […]

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The Role of Renal Artery Embolisation in the Management of Blunt Renal Injuries: A Review

Rosemary Denning Ho, Vivek Shrivastava, Amir Mokhtari, Raghuram Lakshminarayan Abstract Renal injuries are the most common urinary tract injury secondary to external abdominal trauma. They are caused by blunt, penetrating and iatrogenic mechanisms. Despite the high number of blunt renal injuries, little evidence is available to guide management, especially with the evolution of embolisation as

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