The basilar artery as the origin of the ophthalmic artery is extremely rare. A 48-year-old patient had undergone angiography for suspicion of a right middle cerebral artery aneurysm. No aneurysm was detected. Vertebral artery injections demonstrated the left ophthalmic artery originating from the basilar trunk. Current embryologic theories fall short in explaining this entity. Awareness of neur...

The authors report the case of a man with blue toe syndrome, who developed bilateral foot ischemia and underwent successful repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm and associated renal artery stenosis. Blue toe syndrome is characterized by tissue ischemia secondary to embolization of cholesterol crystals or atherothrombotic debris. Microembolization most often occurs in elderly men who undergo a...

Mycotic hepatic artery aneurysm is a vascular pathology associated with bacterial endocarditis. It is rare in occurrence after the introduction of effective antibiotics. We present a young patient with injection drug abuse associated staphylococcal endocarditis which was successfully treated with antibiotics and valve replacement who presented with abdominal pain. He was found to have mycotic a...

Endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair has completely transformed the treatment of elective aneurysmal disease, but endovascular surgeons have been slow to adopt these techniques for ruptured aneurysms. There are endovascular skills and management techniques that are valuable to both vascular and general surgeons in the emergent setting. An endovascular approach to this disease process d...

We herein report a rare case of mycotic aneurysm the superior mesenteric artery caused by <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>. A 66-year-old man, known hypertension and aorto-oesophageal fistula with stented aorta in 2010 2018, presented to emergency department multiple times over 2 months severe postprandial abdominal pain associated vomiting fever. On his last presentation, obtained bloo...

A 21-year-old woman presented with an unruptured large intracavernous aneurysm, which was spontaneously revascularized via unusual collateral pathways a short time after extracranial-intracranial bypass and surgical ligation of the proximal internal carotid artery. The patient had been treated for a large basilar trunk aneurysm with intraaneurysmal embolization using Guglielmi detachable coils,...

Splenic Artery Aneurysms are commonly detected incidentally and can present acutely as a source of intra-abdominal catastrophe. Management options include both surgical and endovascular repair. The role of endovascular repair in an haemodynamically stable acute rupture is undefined and the use of Amplatzer(®) Vascular Plug has not to our knowledge been reported.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE FD technology enables reconstructive repair of otherwise difficult-to-treat intracranial aneurysms. These stentlike devices may induce progressive aneurysm thrombosis without additional implants and may initiate complete reverse vessel remodeling. The associated vascular biologic processes are as yet only partially understood. MATERIALS AND METHODS From 12 different cen...

Cathepsin Enzymes and Cystatin C: Do They Play a Role in Positive Arterial Remodeling? To the Editor: We have read the impressive article recently published by Aoki et al1 evaluating the cathepsin enzyme system in cerebral aneurysm formation. By using quantitative RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry, the authors have demonstrated increased expression of cathepsin B, cathepsin K, and cathepsin S in ...

BACKGROUND: Venous aneurysms are rare vascular pathology. They were first described by Sir Wiliam Osler in 1915 and thereafter Harris 1928. Aneurysm on greater saphenous vein is mostly asymptomatic or they responsible for no more than local discomfort, pain, tenderness it detected when patients referred the treatment evaluation of a femoral inguinal hernia soft-tissue masses. CASE PRESENTATION:...