PERIPHERAL VASCULAR INJURIES

Peripheral Vascular Injuries; Epidemiology and Management

Peripheral vascular injuries and their management in accra.

SUMMARY BACKGROUND The true incidence of vascular injuries in Ghana is not known on account of low reporting. OBJECTIVE We performed a study aimed at reviewing the pattern of injuries to peripheral vessels, and also the pattern of referral, presentation and management of these injuries at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra. METHOD The study covered the period of January 1989 to March 200...

Evaluating Peripheral Vascular Injuries: Is Color Doppler Enough for Diagnosis?

BACKGROUND Vascular injury poses a serious threat to limb and life. Thus, diagnosis should be made immediately with minimally invasive methods. Doppler is a good aid in diagnosis of vascular injury. METHODS The present prospective study was conducted on 150 patients who presented with soft signs (the signs which are suggestive but not confirmatory) of vascular injury. They were subjected to c...

Injuries to Peripheral Nerves

the proximal to the distal segment. These cells may be formed by the breaking up of the myelon sheath, and it is asserted by some of the exponents of centrifugal regeneration that it is by means of these newly-organized myelon fragments that a chemical attraction is created which enables the new axons to find their way into the partly obliterated distal cord. All this doubt and speculation make...

vascular injuries: trends in management

abstract vascular injury presents a great challenge to the emergency resident because these injuries require urgent intervention to prevent loss of life or limb. sometimes serious vascular injury presents with only subtle or occult signs or symptoms. the patient may present weeks or months after initial injury with symptoms of vascular insufficiency, embolization, pseudoaneurysm, arteriovenous ...