Failure of kidney to ascend during embryologic development results in a pelvic kidney. Prevalence rate of crossed fused renal ectopia 1 in 724 paediatric autopsies. These kidneys are often small and abnormally rotated. The ureters are often short; poor drainage and dilatation of collecting system predispose to secondary infection and calculi formation. The blood supply is often complex; multipl...

The accuracy and usefulness of computed flow data in an artery is dependent on the initial geometry, which is in turn dependent on image quality. Due to the resolution of the images, smaller branching arteries are often not captured with computed tomography (CT), and thus neglected in flow simulations. Here, we used a high-quality CT dataset of an isolated common iliac aneurysm, where multiple ...

A clinical case of successful treatment a patient with atherosclerotic peripheral artery disease and clinically significant lesion the coronary carotid arteries. Patients underwent multi-stage surgical treatment. The first stage performed endovascular left internal artery, second — myocardial revascularization, third iliac arteries, fourth rotational atherectomy stenting right superficial femor...

BACKGROUND Endovascular aneurysm repair has revolutionized the therapeutic strategy for abdominal aortic aneurysm. However, hostile proximal aneurysmal neck and tortuosity of access vessels remain challenges in selecting optimal stent-grafts in abdominal aortic aneurysms with difficult anatomy. CASE PRESENTATION A 65-year-old woman complained of intermittent abdominal pain for one week. Compu...

BACKGROUND The present study was carried out to compile normative data for dimensions of the common iliac arteries at varying gestational ages. MATERIAL/METHODS We used anatomical dissection, digital-image analysis (system of Leica QWin Pro 16) and statistical analysis (Student T test, one-way ANOVA, post-hoc RIR Tukey test, and regression analysis) to examine the increase in length (mm), pro...

BACKGROUND The intraluminal size of the aorto-iliac segment is relevant in both the clinical and echographic settings. The aim of this study was to compile both the absolute and relative age-specific reference intervals for cross-sectional areas (CSAs) of the aorto-iliac segment. MATERIAL/METHODS Using the methods of anatomical dissection, digital-image analysis (Leica QWin Pro 16) and statis...

PURPOSE to compare gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (Gd-MRA), digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and duplex of the iliac arteries with intra-arterial pressure gradient measurement as the reference method. MATERIALS AND METHODS Gd-MRA, DSA and duplex examinations of the iliac arteries were performed in 30 patients (60 arteries) with lower-limb arterial occlusive disease. I...

INTRODUCTION We present a successful combined endovascular repair of a rare huge spontaneous pseudoaneurysm in a patient troubled solely with fever of unknown origin. CASE PRESENTATION A 79-year-old Chinese man complained of repeated episodes of fever for 10 days. His medical history, physical examination and laboratory tests were not significant. Routine antibiotics were given for suspected ...

AIM Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) with severe angulation of the neck or of the iliac arteries are often unsuitable for endovascular repair with conventional endografts. We evaluated the performance of a ring-stent abdominal endograft (AnacondaTM Vascutek, Terumo, Scotland) in a consecutive series of infrarenal AAA. METHODS Preoperative, procedural and follow-up data of patients treated wit...