Audible Bleeding, the Vascular Surgery Podcast: Affecting the Practice of Vascular Surgery

Applications of Cell Therapy in Vascular Surgery

Trying to use embryonic stem cells about 20 years ago, working with animals,  especially rats began. During these years , many experiments in mouse embryonic stem cells to transform into a variety of cells and transplanting them were led to remarkable success . In the next issue of human stem cells were considered successful until finally in 1998 the first report was published in the proliferat...

Limb-salvage angioplasty in vascular surgery practice.

OBJECTIVE To assess outcomes of percutaneous infrainguinal arterial angioplasty for treatment of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLI) in poor surgical candidates. METHODS A retrospective clinical analysis of 67 consecutively treated patients (76 limbs) with CLI over a 33-month period was performed. Patients were considered poor surgical candidates because of absent distal target vessels (3...

Surgery of the Vascular System

Vascular Surgery

22 SAJS VOL. 53 NO. 1 MARCH 2015 Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is controversial in terms of definition, anatomy, aetiology and treatment. The definition of TOS is generally accepted as ‘upper extremity symptoms due to compression of the neurovascular bundle in the area of the neck just above the first rib’.[1] The thoracic outlet, also known as the cervicothoracobrachial junction, consists of ...

Vascular surgery.

Recent developments in vascular surgery have occurred in many areas. The topics of intimal hyperplasia and reperfusion injury are the subject of much current research and possible methods of treatment are at an early stage of development. Advances in perioperative care have contributed to a reduction in mortality and morbidity. Endovascular techniques are being employed widely but the indicatio...