we report the case of a three-year-old girl who complained from dysphagia and post-prandial vomiting since she was 6months old. several diagnostic work-ups were performed for her problem. upper gi endoscopy was normal but barium swallow revealed an external pressure effect over upper part of the esophagus (figure 1) and the ct angiography of thoracic aorta showed that this external pressure eff...

this report presents a case of left radial artery pseudoaneurysm developing at the previous site of invasive monitoring. the patient had prosthetic mitral valve replacement one month earlier, and anti-coagulation therapy had started on the first post-operative day. the patient’s radial artery aneurysm with a 4-centimeter diameter was resected and the radial artery was ligated.

endoscopic radial artery harvesting (erah) is a feasible and attractive minimally invasive approach for conduit procurement, however there have been concerns about a potential neurological damage occurring at the harvest limb site secondary to injury of the radial nerve during endoscopic harvesting. we present a case of erah in which we evaluated intraoperatively the characteristics of radial n...

Instruction: Measurement of brachial artery diameter variation by ultrasound methods has commonly been used to test the endothelial function. It is known that the artery diameter is increased by flow stimulation. Therefore in the present study, the effect of external obstruction, as flow stimulation, on the radial strain of the brachial artery was assessed. Also the biomechanical behavior of...

Aberrant right subclavian artery, the most common anatomic variant of aortic arch, occurs in 0.5% population. Symptoms generally result from compression esophagus and/or trachea as aberrant vessel passes posteriorly mediastinum. Treatment includes revascularizing artery carotid using a cervical approach combined with occluding origin thoracic aorta. We describe hybrid treatment for symptomatic ...

variations in arterial anatomy are less frequent, contrary to the venous system, and most of these variations affect visceral arteries. variations in the brachial artery are the most frequently reported and so far a minimum of six different patterns have been described. the most common of these patterns is the superficial brachial artery, which lies superficially to the median nerve. much less ...

A case of anomalous terminal branching of the axillary artery was encountered and described in a left upper limb of a male cadaver. A series of 214 upper limbs of Caucasian race was dissected. A variant artery, stemming from the very end of the axillary artery followed a superficial course distally. It passed the cubital fossa, ran on the lateral side of the forearm as usual radial artery, cros...

To the Editor: A 38‐year‐old male presented with chest pain for coronary angiography to exclude coronary heart disease in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University. During coronary angiography, a 6 Fr sheath was inserted without any difficulty after right radial artery access was obtained. However, the Loach guidewire could only be advanced to the descending aorta, and repeated atte...

Abstract Background This case report documents a rare variation of persistent median artery. Normally transient vessel present during embryologic development the limbs, artery typically regresses by eighth week life as radial and ulnar arteries predominate distal vascular supply hand. In subset adult population, this remains which most often ends in carpal tunnel or hand without significant dep...