The effects of gentle mechanical skin stimulation on reflex discharges in cardiac sympathetic nerve evoked by somatic afferent stimulation were studied in anesthetized rats. Mass discharges were recorded from cardiac sympathetic efferent nerve while somatocardiac sympathetic A- and C-reflexes were elicited by single electrical stimuli to myelinated A- and unmyelinated C-afferent fibers of the t...

OBJECTIVE More than 50% of aortocoronary saphenous vein grafts are occluded 10 years after surgery. Intimal hyperplasia is an initial, critical step in the progression toward occlusion. To date, no clinically relevant large animal models of aortocoronary saphenous vein graft intimal hyperplasia have been fully characterized. Gene therapy holds promise as a novel treatment for aortocoronary saph...

The skin on the dorsum of the foot is innervated by the superficial peroneal and saphenous nerves. Most of the dorsum is supplied by the superficial peroneal nerve. Here we report a variation in the sensory innervation of the cadaver. The skin of the first inter which is normally innervated by the deep peroneal nerve was also supplied by the superficial peroneal nerve. A communication between t...

OBJECTIVE Among the veins used as a graft in myocardial revascularizations and ends, great saphenous vein is the most used. Knowing the presence and location of valves has great importance when evaluating the surgical anatomy of the great saphenous vein. Despite major surgical application and many works involving great saphenous vein, the number of valves present in it from the saphenous hiatus...

Since the mid-1970s, the use of local anaesthesia by podiatrists has been a routine part of practice and has facilitated the application of many techniques that have been developed to the benefit of the patient. The methods employed range from local infiltration of the anaesthetic agent at the site of the lesion to nerve trunk block techniques that prevent sensory stimulus from the area of the ...

OBJECTIVE Failure of saphenous vein grafts remains a major limitation of coronary bypass surgery. The aims of the present study were to determine whether pressure distension of human saphenous vein induces the activation of p38-MAPK and to determine its role in apoptosis. METHODS AND RESULTS Phosphorylated p38 was detected at basal levels in human saphenous vein obtained immediately after har...

The limb was revascularized 3 h after the injury. The postoperative course was normal. Post-surgical CK value was normal (145 Uyl). The patient was discharged on the 12th postoperative day and an anticoagulant therapy with warfarin sodium and compression stocking was started. At one-year follow-up, by means of duplex scan examination the artery and the vein were patent. No muscle or nerve impai...