buerger's disease is an occlusive inflammatory disease of the small and medium-sized arteries and accounts for a variable proportion of patients with peripheral vascular disease throughout the world. the aim of this study was to review the records of buerger's disease patients admitted to surgery wards of our university hospitals. 277 patients with buerger's disease were surgically treated betw...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the results of vascular reconstruction in soft tissue sarcoma surgery and establish an algorithm based on current evidence. MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied patients undergoing soft-tissue sarcoma in a tertiary hospital. A retrospective review of 8 cases was carried out, analysing the demographics, surgical planning, complications, disease-free survival and bypass patency...

OBJECTIVE To study morphofunctional alterations induced by brief pressure increases in human saphenous veins utilized in coronary artery bypass grafting. METHOD Saphenous veins of 20 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting, were distributed into four experimental groups, control, 100 mmHg, 200 mmHg and 300 mmHg, and submitted to pressure distention over 15 seconds using Krebs solu...

In order to clarify the role of prostacyclin-thromboxane system (PTS) in development acute circulatory disorders early postoperative period after coronary artery bypass surgery, its condition was studied 86 patients with disease. vascular insufficiency and shock, a decrease level thromboxane blood revealed, while arterial hypertension, elevated concentrations were determined absence changes pro...

BACKGROUND Bypass graft disease is related to proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells and to platelet activation with thrombus formation. Nitric oxide inhibits these biological responses; it has never been demonstrated, however, whether this occurs in intact human vascular tissue after endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene transfer. METHODS We examined whether endothelial...

Results The primary vascular diagnosis was abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in combination with cerebrovascular and peripheral vascular disease in 105 patients (mean age, 67 years), cerebrovascular disease (CVD) in 677 (mean age, 64 years), and lower extremity ischemia (ASO) in 693 (mean age, 61 years), and combination of cerebrovascular and periferial vascular disease in 365 patients (mean age ...

Deep vein arterialization (DVA) is a therapeutic option in “no option” for revascularization chronic limb-threatening ischemia patients, creating an arteriovenous bypass between proximal artery and distal deep venous target at the ankle. Imaging plays crucial role peripheral arterial disease (PAD) patient management. We present case of 71-year-old PAD (Rutherford class 5) with focal gangrene fi...

INTRODUCTION Ruptured common iliac aneurysms present with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. This case describes the successful outcome in a patient with complex vascular surgical history. CASE PRESENTATION An elderly patient presented with abdominal pain confirmed by CT as leaking iliac aneurysm. He had previously undergone an aorto-bifemoral bypass graft for ruptured abdominal aortic an...

Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms are uncommonly encountered in vascular surgery practice, but they typically require repair. Historically, they have been repaired with open aneurysmorrhaphy, bypass and exclusion, or simple ligation. More recently, endovascular repair with coil embolization and stent graft exclusion have been advocated. We present a repair of an SMA...

Pseudoaneurysm (PA) following vascular reconstruction is a complication of bypass surgery. Historically, the mainstay of treatment was an open repair; the surgical management consisted of resection of the initial graft with reimplantation of a new bypass either into the original arteriotomy or to a more distal target. Placement of a stent graft to exclude the PA is a viable option. We present a...