Defibrillator testing (DFT) is still used in selected patients to ensure adequate therapy. To do so, ventricular fibrillation is induced and terminated by the implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Studies have shown increases in neuronal damage markers without a measurable clinical effect in patients after defibrillator threshold testing…[Read more]

The Pipeline Embolization Device (PED) is reported to be a safe treatment tool for aneurysms. However, mortality occurs in a few cases, and this has not been clearly studied. We conducted a multicenter study to retrospectively evaluate the causes of, and risk factors for, mortality in patients with intracranial aneurysms treated with the…[Read more]

In the first case, the patient (at Nolla stage 7) showed delayed onset infections after four weeks; in the second case, the patient (at Nolla stage 6) showed bleeding immediately after surgery and suture. With reference to delayed onset infections, no statistically significant association was found among gender (χ2 = 0.719; p = 0.396), germ…[Read more]