With cheap airfares, international travel has become commonplace. In 2007, around 70 million trips abroad were made by UK residents compared to 30 million in 1987. Around 1 in 10 travellers seek medical attention for symptoms that they have developed abroad after visiting the developing world, either while still abroad or on their return to the UK. This article aims to provide the GP with a strategy to deal with such patients presenting to primary care.
Embolization is a remarkably versatile procedure used in nearly all vascular and nonvascular systems to treat a wide range of pathology. The published literature is rich with studies demonstrating the enormous therapeutic potential offered by embolization procedures, and the possibilities continue to expand with the advent of new embolization agents and techniques. Unfortunately, with this variety and innovation comes a wide spectrum of potential complications, not always easy to classify and summarize, associated with embolization. This article reviews the procedures and associated complications of arterial and venous embolization procedures, organized by vascular distribution.
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