We describe a case of secondary hypertension caused by renal arteriovenous fistula. An 8-year old girl was hospitalized with a severe headache, vomiting, and seizure. Renal angiography demonstrated multiple renal arteriovenous fistula and increased blood renin concentration in the left renal vein. Thus, left renal arteriovenous fistula and renin induced secondary hypertension were diagnosed. He...

Lymphoma arising in the gastrointestinal tract is relatively common and can affect multiple sites. The development of a gastrointestinal fistula secondary to lymphoma is very rare and has not previously been reported between the duodenum and ileum. This is the first reported care where a fistula secondary to lymphoma has been treated by an endoscopic covered duodenal stent occluding the defect ...

We report two rare and infrequent cases, one of a patient with Cognard type V tentorial dural fistula diagnosed at the beginning as trunk glioma in gait disturbance. And another Guillian Barré syndrome tetraparesis secondary to arteriovenous fistula.

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INTRODUCTION For access-challenged patients with bilateral upper extremity central venous stenosis, solutions include the Hemodialysis Reliable Outflow (HeRO) device or an autogenous AV fistula in the lower limb. We evaluated HeRO grafts and transpositions of the femoral vein in maintaining primary and secondary patency. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 40 patients with a HeRO device and 1...

Background. This paper is a comparison of surgical treatment of secondary enteroaortal fistulas using own modification of surgical technique. Material and methods. There were analysed 18 patients treated for secondary enteroaortal fistulas as a complication of the vascular prosthesis implantation. Patients were operated and the dracon prosthesis was changed to arterial homograft, which is more ...