ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021
Liquid and Solid Embolic Agents in Gonadal Veins.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Symptoms and quality of life assessment after coil and foam embolization in patients with venous-origin chronic pelvic pain (VO-CPP) - a subgroup of pelvic venous disorders (PeVD).Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- An injectable and dual-crosslinked hydrogel for controlled and permanent vascular embolization.Bioactive materials · 2025Article
- Management of Extra-Pelvic Varicose Veins of Pelvic Origin in Female Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Percutaneous Embolization for Painful Varicocele: An 8-Year Tertiary Centre Experience.Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology · 2025Article
- Antegrade embolization of varicocele with cyanoacrylate glue: a case report.CVIR endovascular · 2024Article
- OnyxGels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- A Comparative Study of a Small Series of Patients (50 Patients) with Pelvic Varicose Veins Treated with Plugs Alone or Plugs and Polidocanol.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Anterior and Posterior Nutcracker Syndrome Combined with May-Thurner Syndrome: First Report of This Unique Case.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Insights into pelvic venous disorders.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Review
- Comprehensive overview of the venous disorder known as pelvic congestion syndrome.Annals of medicine · 2022Review
- Editorial of Special Issue "Embolization Techniques: State of the Art and Future Perspectives".Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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- Non-Adhesive Liquid Embolic Agents in Extra-Cranial District: State of the Art and Review of the Literature.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
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9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Male varicocele and pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS) are common pathologies with high predominance in young patients, having a high impact on the quality of life and infertility. Lately, the use of different endovascular embolization techniques, with various embolizing agents, shows good technical results and clinical outcomes. With the aim of presenting the "state of the art" of endovascular techniques for the treatment of male varicocele and PCS, and to discuss the performance of the different embolic agents proposed, we conducted an extensive analysis of the relevant literature and we reported and discussed the results of original studies and previous meta-analyses, providing an updated guide on this topic to clinicians and interventional radiologists. We have also underlined the technical aspects for the benefit of those who approach this type of interventional treatment. Our review suggests promising results in both the endovascular embolic treatment of male varicocele and PCS; for varicocele, a success rate of between 70% and 100% and a recurrence rate of up to 16% is reported, while for PCS it has been found that technical success is achieved in almost all cases of endovascular treatment, with a highly variable recurrence rate based on reports. Complications are overall rather rare and are represented by periprocedural pain, migration of embolic media and vascular perforations: severe adverse events have been reported very rarely.
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