abdominal aortic coarctation is an extremely rare vascular pathology. its etiology can be congenital or acquired. here we present a case of acquired infrarenal abdominal coarctation in a 66-year-old woman who complained of low back and legs pain. she had no signs of resting lower limb ischemia, with diminished distal pulses and normal blood pressure in upper and lower extremities. magnetic reso...

Introduction: Normal vascular supply to each kidney is by a single artery and vein on side. This normal pattern not found in all cases. Arterial variations can be accessory renal arteries which hilar, upper polar or lower early branching. Venous late confluence, multiple veins left there retroaortic circumaortic course of the vein.
 Aims: To evaluate vasculature patients who undergo contra...

Heart failure is a clinical syndrome characterized by the inability of the heart to provide nutrient supply to tissues. In 75% of cases, the underlying pathology causing heart failure in patients with cardiac death is coronary heart disease. A rabbit model of heart failure with coronary ligation was produced to mimic coronary heart disease in humans. After producing the model, two arteries ...

Renal Artery Stenosis is a common treatable cause of hypertension and is on the increase in the present population due to atherosclerosis and associated risk factors. Current treatment measures include lifestyle with medical management, revascularization using angioplasty (+/− stenting) and bypass surgery. Peripheral artery subintimal angioplasty was initially described in 1987. It is a well-kn...

The myogenic response is an essential component of renal blood flow autoregulation and is the inherent ability of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) to contract in response to increases in intraluminal pressure. Although mechanosensitive ion channels are thought to initiate VSMC stretch-induced contraction, their molecular identity is unknown. Recent reports suggest degenerin/epithelial Na(+)...

Crossed fused renal ectopia is a rare congenital anomaly of the urinary system where one kidney crosses over to opposite side and the parenchyma of the two kidneys fuse. Herein, we present an atypical CFRE case whose renal anatomy does not exactly match any of the already defined CFRE types. Both of the kidneys are ectopic with the crossed ectopic right kidney lying superiorly and fused to the ...

Introduction The abdominal aorta begins at 12th thoracic vertebra, and it descends anterior to the lumbar vertebrae, and bifurcates at the 4th lumbal vertebral body. It supplies all the abdominal organs, abdominal walls, gonads, and lower extremity [1]. In the usual vasculature, celiac trunk is divided into three branches: common hepatic artery (CHA), splenic artery (SA), and left gastric arter...

The horseshoe kidney is a congenital fusion anomaly where both kidneys are fused at the lower poles. We report a case of horseshoe kidney in a 70 year-old Thai cadaver. This horseshoe kidney was associated with malformations of renal hila, sinuses, calyces and supernumerary arterial supplies from the dorsal part of the kidney. To our knowledge, the arterial supply to the horseshoe kidney from t...

Background Renal denervation (RDN) is an effective treatment for resistant hypertension with expanding indications in the hypertensive population [1]. The European Society of Hypertension (ESH) guidelines [2], largely based on the Symplicity trial inclusion criteria, state RDN should not be performed if the patient has multiple renal arteries, renal artery stenosis or renal arteries with a diam...

Abdominal aortic coarctation is an extremely rare vascular pathology. Its etiology can be congenital or acquired. Here we present a case of acquired infrarenal abdominal coarctation in a 66-year-old woman who complained of low back and legs pain. She had no signs of resting lower limb ischemia, with diminished distal pulses and normal blood pressure in upper and lower extremities. Magnetic reso...