salis pedis artery, which resulted from a punctured wound caused by a pointed piece of bamboo. Swelling immediately followed the receipt of the injury, and was succeeded by inflammation, which, however, soon abated when the external wound completely healed. Fifteen days after the occurrence of the injury, the patient noticed that in its situation there existed a pulsating swelling. On admission...

A new technique to obtain a segment of the superficial femoral artery as an arterial conduit in young patients while an unobstructed peripheral blood flow is maintained by superficial femoral artery-deep femoral artery transposition is illustrated with two clinical examples. The explanted arterial autograft requires no replacement by another graft and provides a conduit of up to 10 cm in length...

The management of severely hypoplastic pulmonary arteries in the adolescent or adult with congenital heart disease is challenging. A patient with pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect (PA-VSD) presented with severe cyanosis due to a kinked and thrombosed right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit. Retrograde wedge angiography showed a patent right and a diminutive left pulmonary arte...