Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) in diabetic patients is a significant cause of Morbility. Long arterial occlusion patient previously treated can require unusual and complex solution. Herein we report case complicated bypass with history for bilateral popliteal aneurysm. A 51-year-old male, smoker, hypertension diabetes mellitus was referred to our hospital rest pain left limb peripheral cyano...

Purpose: To evaluate outcome of interventional and surgical treatment in infrainguinal bypass occlusion and to identify predictive factors affecting therapeutic success. Material and Methods: Over a period of three years 96 patients with infrainguinal bypass occlusion were included in this retrospective study. 52 patients were treated by catheter-directed thrombolysis and 44 patients by reconst...

Ischemic monomelic neuropathy (IMN) is an infrequently recognized type of ischemic neuropathy produced by shunting blood or acute occlusion of a major proximal artery in the extremities. IMN predominantly occurs in diabetic patients with evidence of peripheral atherosclerotic vascular disease and neuropathy. We report a case of ischemic monomelic neuropathy occurring in a diabetic patient with ...

BACKGROUND Maintenance of adequate vascular access for hemodialysis is important in patients with end-stage renal disease. Once arteriovenous fistula (AVF) occlusion occurs, the patient should be treated with rescue therapy. This study was performed to evaluate the results of a rescue therapy for AVF occlusion. METHODS From January 2008 to December 2012, 47 patients who underwent surgical res...

OBJECTIVES To assess safety and clinical performance of a novel bioabsorbable vascular graft in pediatric patients with univentricular cardiac malformation who received surgical correction via an extracardiac cavopulmonary conduit. METHODS The implanted graft material is designed to attract patient's own cells and proteins, which trigger a cascade of physiological events leading to endogenous...

We reported a patient with Buerger's disease who presented with critical limb ischemiawith prior recurrent occlusions after multiple surgical and endovascular treatments. Total occlusion of the whole native femoropopliteal and infrapopliteal arteries was observed. The femoropopliteal bypass graft, as well as a stent that was implanted in the mid-popliteal artery, were also occluded. Because of ...

BACKGROUND Suturing of a coronary anastomosis in totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting on the beating heart is technically demanding. The potential benefits of the endoscopic Magnetic Vascular Positioner device (Ventrica, Inc, Fremont, Calif) to facilitate construction of a coronary anastomosis in a closed chest environment were evaluated. METHODS Totally endoscopic coronary arte...

PURPOSE We performed a meta-analysis to ascertain the benefits of antithrombotic therapy for maintaining the patency of vascular grafts following lower extremity bypass operations. METHODS We identified articles using MEDLINE and hand searches of relevant journals for randomized clinical trials that compared the use of antithrombotic therapy with control or placebo therapy. Random-effects (De...