We report a rare case of lower limb swelling due to compression of the superficial femoral vein by a solitary deep femoral artery aneurysm. The patient was a 58-year-old man presenting with acute swelling of the right lower limb caused by deep venous thrombosis. A multi-detector computed tomographic scan (CT) confirmed the diagnosis of a deep femoral artery aneurysm and revealed no evidence of ...

We studied the local and systemic concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines produced during acute lower extremity ischaemia and following reperfusion in 19 patients undergoing thromboembolectomy of the femoral artery. Blood samples were taken from the femoral vein (local response) and radial artery (systemic response) in the ischaemic (baseline) phase, and 2, 12 and 24 h post-reperfusion. As...

e.g. plasma, whole blood, saline, etc., but the veins are all collapsed, and repeated attempts to get a needle into a vein now fail. We have found at such time the following method very useful. It has never failed uptil now. In no less than 20 cases we administered, the fluids by this method. The technique is very simple. Palpate the femoral artery of the patient just at Poupart's ligament. Abo...

After diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization, femoral artery closure devices offer quicker time to hemostasis, ambulation, and discharge than does manual compression. Nurses should understand how femoral artery closure devices work, the potential vascular complications that may occur with their use, and the recommended time to ambulation and discharge.

Vascular injuries after total hip arthroplasty are occasionally reported, but we have found only two cases of major arterial occlusion, and none at all involving the common femoral artery. We report two cases of occlusion of the common femoral artery after Charnley arthroplasties, one of which resulted in a below-knee amputation.

i) a case of bilateral stenosis of the internal carotid artery with aneurysm of basilar trunk is reported. 2) via femoral angiography confirmed the diagnosis which is strongly recommended in diagnosing such cases. 3) no surgica l treatment is considered. 4) no similar case has been reported in literature.

BACKGROUND We tested the hypothesis that basal (resting) limb blood flow and vascular conductance are reduced with age in adult humans and that these changes are related to elevations in sympathetic vasoconstrictor nerve activity and reductions in limb oxygen demand. METHODS AND RESULTS Sixteen young (28+/-1 years; mean+/-SEM) and 15 older (63+/-1 years) healthy normotensive adult men were st...

Resting whole leg blood flow and vascular conductance decrease linearly with advancing age in healthy adult men. The potential role of age-related increases in oxidative stress in these changes is unknown. Resting leg blood flow during saline and ascorbic acid infusion was studied in 10 young (25 +/- 1 yr) and 11 older (63 +/- 2 yr) healthy normotensive men. Plasma oxidized LDL, a marker of oxi...

BACKGROUND Vascular complications of cardiac catheterization have increased in line with increasing number of percutaneous interventions. Open repair is the standard method of treatment for true and false aneurysms of femoral artery. We report results of patients operated due to femoral artery pseudoaneurysm after cardiac catheterization. METHODS Data from 12,261 patients who underwent percut...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to compare post-dilation strategies of nitinol self-expanding stents implanted in the superficial femoral artery of diabetic patients with peripheral arterial disease. BACKGROUND Endovascular treatment of superficial femoral artery disease with nitinol self-expanding stents is associated with high rates of in-stent restenosis in patients with diabetes m...