An 83-year-old febrile woman presented with leg pain. Her lateral right thigh was swollen, but no neurological or ischemic findings were noted. A computed tomography scan showed an abnormal right internal iliac artery leading directly into the posterior aspect of the thigh, which was determined to be a persistent sciatic artery (PSA) (Picture). The PSA was thrombosed, dilated, and surrounded by...

To cite: Kumar Y, Hooda K, Lo L, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015211444 DESCRIPTION A right-hand dominant patient presented with pain and a tender mass in the hypothenar eminence, and with paraesthesia of the fourth and fifth fingers. The patient was referred for MRI of the hand, which showed thrombosed ulnar artery aneurysm and an irreg...

BACKGROUND Forearm basilic fistulas are rarely used as vascular accesses for haemodialysis but they represent a valuable option when autogenous radial-cephalic fistulas cannot be performed. There is no information in the literature to date about the outcome of direct ulnar-basilic or transposed radial-basilic forearm autogenous fistulas after endovascular treatment of stenosis or thrombosis. ...

We report a case of acute type A dissection with ischemic enterocolitis due to blood flow insufficiency in the superior mesenteric artery. A 67 year-old man, with medicated ischemic heart disease and hypertension, presented to another hospital with chest pain radiating to the back and epigastrium. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography revealed a type A dissecting aneurysm, that extended from th...

A16-year-old patient, female, diagnosed wwith a coronary artery fistula, was followed in the outpatient clinic since the first year of life. After referral for a murmur, the initial clinical and echocardiographic evaluation was of a right coronary artery fistula. At two years of age, cardiac catheterization showed a small fistula arising from the right coronary artery, near the origin of the si...

Background. Extracranial vertebral artery aneurysms are a rare cause of embolic stroke; surgical and endovascular therapy options are debated and long-term complication may occur. Case Report. A 53-year-old man affected by neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) came to our attention for recurrent vertebrobasilar embolic strokes, caused by a primary giant, partially thrombosed, fusiform aneurysm of the ...

OBJECTIVE We applied a modified pharmacomechanical thrombolysis (PMT) technique to endovascular treatment of thrombosed arteriovenous (AV) grafts without the use of any mechanical thrombectomy devices. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the PMT technique in the treatment of thrombosed AV grafts by analyzing the long-term patency. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighty-two patients wi...