The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of combined ipsilateral percutaneous iliac angioplasty and open infrainguinal surgical techniques for the treatment of patients with multilevel arterial occlusive disease. Combining two types of approaches in the peripheral vascular field is a less aggressive technique and may result in excellent early patency and limb salvage rates. We rep...

Subintimal angioplasty is an effective method for the treatment of long superficial femoral artery (SFA) occlusions. One of the major limiting factors for the success of this procedure is the failure to re-enter the true lumen. The recently introduced luminal re-entry devices provide a high technical success rate, but failures can occur. In such cases, a retrograde popliteal approach can serve ...

The most common anatomical variation of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) is hypoplasia or aplasia associated with a persistent sciatic artery. We report a case exhibiting SFA hypoplasia combined with connection of the deep femoral artery (DFA) to the popliteal artery (in other words, the DFA became the popliteal artery). A 41-year-old man was admitted with a crush injury of the left foot. C...

A 77-year-old man with a history of hemodialysis was referred due to swelling of the right groin. Enhanced computed tomography (CT) showed extravasation of the medium from the superficial femoral artery (SFA) with surrounding large hematoma. Three-dimensional CT angiography revealed rupture of SFA just distal to common femoral artery with pseudoaneurysmal formation. At an emergent surgery, SFA ...

We show that high-order harmonics generated from molecules by intense laser pulses can be expressed as the product of a returning electron wave packet and the photo-recombination cross section where the electron wave packet can be obtained from the simple strong-field approximation (SFA) or from a companion atomic target. Using these wave packets but replacing the photo-recombination cross sect...

Background. Ischemic stroke (IS) and cerebral microbleeds (CMB) are the most common types of neurological complications infective endocarditis (IE), while their combination is poorly understood.
 Aim. To evaluate pattern cortical-subcortical infarction with lobar CMB or subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in patients left-sided IE.
 Materials methods. A retrospective case-control study was ...

Abstract We introduce methods to apply stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) financial assets as an alternative data envelopment analysis, because SFA allows us fit a with noisy data. In contrast conventional SFA, we wish deal estimation risk, heteroscedasticity in noise and inefficiency terms. investigate measurement error the risk return measures using simulation–extrapolation method develop res...

BACKGROUND Arterial stiffness is an important factor in atherosclerosis. Thus we examined whether aerobic exercise could reduce arterial stiffness in obese women with type 2 diabetes without diabetic complication. METHODS A total of 35 women with type 2 diabetes (body mass index, 26.6±2.8 kg/m(2); age, 56.4±1.9 years; duration of diabetes, 4.7±4.8 years) were assigned to aerobic exercise grou...

SEE PAGE 828 T he superficial femoral artery (SFA), the longest artery in the human body, is subjected to nearly constant torsion, bending, and compression. It is perhaps natural to expect it to be the Achilles heel of endovascular interventions, plagued by higher rates of in-stent restenosis (ISR) compared to other arterial beds. Indeed, the 12-month rates of ISR after implantation of modern b...