Upper limbs deep vein thrombosis is a rare event in patients, although increasing incidence is seen due to higher cancer diagnosis rate and the use of various vascular catheters. A 58-year-old man with a history of anemia was scheduled for radical prostatectomy due to prostate adenocarcinoma. The patient underwent surgery under general anesthesia. After surgery, he was transferred to the intens...

Background: Infected femoral artery pseudoaneurysm is one of the important domains in vascular surgery and femoral pseudoaneurysms has been under focus in particular because of its increasing rate in Intravenous Drug Abusers (IVDAs) and occurrence following common vascular procedures. In this article we assessed the results of femoral artery ligation in patients with femoral pseudoaneurysms. Me...

This is a morbidity study about vascular trauma in Sina hospital, from 1974 to 1999. In this study morbidity is defined as amputation, wound infection, and recurrent thrombosis.Materials and Methods: We reviewed the Patient's records and studied the effects of different factors such as type of trauma, associated injury, absence of capillary filling and presence or absence of distal pulse before...

Background: Patients who require surgery on the lower extremities are considered to be a high risk group from the point of anesthesia. This study was performed to compare sitting and lateral positions in spinal anesthesia method with hyperbaric bupivacaine 0.5% for hemodynamic status and analgesic period in patients under vascular surgery of the lower limbs in Imam-Khomeini Hospital Complex aff...