Reno alimentary fistulae are rare. The article describes various types of reno alimentary fistulae including rarer calico colic fistula and vesico colic fistula due to diverticulosis. The clinical features and management is discussed; and the relevant literature reviewed.

The stenosis and subsequent thrombosis of the arteriovenous fistulae may lead to a loss of vascular access sites; this a major problem in chronic haemodialysis patients. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty has been a popular way of correcting such lesions in recent years. We have reviewed patients who underwent this operation from 1993 to 1996 at the Queen Mary Hospital. Among 11 patients who...

Keywords Arteriovenous graft Hemodialysis Thrombosis Vascular access failure is known as a principal cause of morbidity of end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. The major reason for vascular access failure is the neointimal hyperplasia which leads to venous thrombosis and stenosis. The efficacy of different pharmacological therapies has been studied in increasing the vascular access patency ...

Dr. Eduardo Wajnberg – Rua Lopes Quintas 100 / 602 22460-010 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] Complex cavernous sinus fistulae (CCF) are a technical challenge to neuro-vascular specialists. Their clinical symptoms are usually a triad of chemosis, ptosis and exophthalmia. Among the most serious symptoms are visual loss, and consequences of brain hemorrhage. The most commonly...

The ground-breaking article by Brescia and Cimino in 1966 (1) revolutionized the creation of the vascular access, and the Cimino fistula was soon used in almost all dialysis patients. Unfortunately, subsequent wide-spread use of PTFE grafts instead of AV fistulae occurred because of the ease of the surgical technique, the immediate availability of the graft for puncture, the need of high blood ...

Temporary epicardial pacing wires during open-heart surgery are routinely used both for diagnostic and treatment purposes. In complicated cases where patients are unstable or the wires are difficult to remove, the pacing wires are cut at the skin level and allowed to retract by themselves. This procedure rarely causes complications. However, there have been cases reporting that retained pacing ...

Pseudoaneurysms (PsA) and arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) of the thyrocervical trunk and its branches are rare complications of traumatic or iatrogenic arterial injuries. Most such injuries are iatrogenic and are associated with central venous catheterization. Historically, thyrocervical trunk PsA and AVF have been managed with open surgical repair; however, multiple treatment modalities are now a...

Communications between coronary arteries and the venous side of the circulation are a rare type of congenital malformation (2-7 per thousand in the experience of Gasul et al. (I960) and 4 per thousand in that of Nora, McNamara, and Fraser (I967)). Krause (i 865) first reported a case of coronary fistula, Abbott (I908) described the illness, and Biorck and Crafoord (I947) reported the continuous...

Aortoenteric fistula is a rare but potentially fatal condition causing massive gastrointestinal bleeding. In particular, double primary aortoenteric fistulae are vanishingly rare. We encountered a 75-year-old male patient suffering from abdominal pain, hematochezia, hematemesis, and hypotension. His computed tomography images showed abdominal aortic aneurysm and suspected aortoenteric fistulae....

Aims and objectives: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of Magnetic Resonance Fistulography in the assessment of the perianal fistulae. Background: The success of the surgical approach for perianal fistulae treatmentis closely associated with the preoperative assessment. MR imaging plays a key role in describing the fistulae in relation to the anatomy of the perianal region. This has been cate...