Chapter 4 50 The present study aimed to examine the effects of long-term treatment with the angiotensin-converting-enzyme-inhibitor quinapril on markers of inflammation in patients requiring coronary artery bypass grafting. We performed a subgroup analysis of a prospective, placebo-controlled , randomized, multi-center study evaluating quinapril 40 mg. once daily in patients scheduled to underg...

OBJECTIVES Neointimal hyperplasia and superimposed atherosclerosis are central to late vein graft failure following coronary artery bypass grafting. Recent studies on post-injury arterial vessels have suggested a role of osteopontin (OPN) in the process of vascular remodelling. This study was designed to assess the in vivo performance of OPN following vein grafting. METHODS Bilateral saphenou...

The authors describe surgical treatment for high risk patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms of complicated morphology for standard endovascular repair. This was achieved by combining endovascular stent-grafting for aneurysmal sac exclusion with conventional vascular surgical procedures.

Grafting is a technique applied to considerable number of crops, with tomato standing out. However, this limited by the obtaining unfunctional grafts, which decrease success rate and therefore benefits achieved. The aim work was analyze failure in intraspecific grafting plants, focusing on tissue development, cell wall defense reactions, distribution starch soluble sugars at graft junction. aut...

Laparoscopic vascular surgery has not been widely embraced by vascular surgeons because of the specific technical skills needed in performing vascular anastomosis. Robot assisted vascular surgery has shown the possibility to overcome several limitations of laparoscopic vascular surgery in previous studies. We report two cases of robot assisted aortofemoral bypass grafting for aortoiliac occlusi...

The authors describe treatment possibility for AAA with renal arteries arising from aneurysmal sac in high operating risk patients. They combined endovascular stent-grafting for aneurysmal sac exclusion and classical vascular surgical iliacrenal bypass for revascularisation of excluded renal arteries.

In rabbits, 9 g rectus femoris (RFM) muscles were grafted with tendon repair and with (1) nerves and blood vessels intact, (2) nerves intact and blood vessels anastomosed, or (3) nerves and blood vessels anastomosed. The influences of tendon, nerve, and vascular repair on the functional capabilities of grafts were compared 15-120 days after grafting. Data were collected on the mass, total prote...