Utility of vascular endoscopy for reconstructive vascular surgery.

Reconstructive vascular surgery for intestinal angina.

THE disastrous consequences of infarction of the bowel are well documented. In an accumulated series of 274 patients from seven major centres up to 1975 the mortality averaged 95 per cent.' Baccelli2 in 1918 first described the syndrome of chronic intestinal ischaemia manifested by post-prandial pain. It was not until 1933 that Connor3 and Dunphy4 linked intestinal angina to chronic visceral ar...

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...

Vascular endoscopy --- an adjunct to carotid surgery.

Technical advances in optical instrumentation have made vascular endoscopy a potential method for intraoperative evaluation of carotid endarterectomy. A prospective protocol was designed to evaluate the efficacy and practicality of this technique using the Hopkins Optical System in 35 carotid endarterectomies. The external carotid artery was examined after completion of the endarterectomy. The ...

Vascular inflammation - implications for microvascular reconstructive surgery after irradiation by

Virtual endoscopy for cardio vascular exploration

With the recent introduction of multi-slice CT which acquire four image slices at the same time (which will increase to 16 image slices in the near future) the possible size of the generated image stack has increased tremendously. Traditional cine mode explorations of the image stack are rendered impractical by the sheer quantity of possible 1000 image slices of the resolution of 512 512 pixels...