the purpose of this article is to diseuse the philosophy of our approch to the severely ischemic extremity and ourcurrent methods of treatment. 1 - the natural history of artheriosclerotic arterial obstruction should always be borne in mind. there is no doubt that many people have some degree of arterial stenosis or obstrcction and never suffer symptoms, either because of the reduced demand due...

Abstract Post-surgical complications following endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) remain a risk, arising from technical difficulties imposed by highly calcified or tortuous iliac arteries. Automated methods enable segmentation of the artery to potentially better define perioperative risk prediction. This study uses imaging software characterise segmental anatomy and aims establish if abnormali...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of fasudil, a Rho-kinase inhibitor, on chronic ischemia-related bladder dysfunction. MATERIALS AND METHODS Male Sprague-Dawley rats (16 weeks old) were divided into control, chronic bladder ischemia (CBI), and CBI with fasudil treatment (CBI-Fa) groups. The CBI and CBI-Fa groups underwent balloon endothelial injury of bilateral iliac arteries and received a...

Reductions in nitric oxide (NO) activity persist after arterial intimal injury and may be a factor in the development of intimal hyperplasia. NO inhibits in vitro platelet aggregation, leukocyte adhesion, and smooth muscle cell growth, all of which are key components in the process of intimal hyperplasia. We hypothesized that long-term supplementation with L-arginine, the precursor of NO, would...

Ovarian arteries generally arise from the anterolateral (or lateral) aspect of the abdominal aorta caudal to the origin of the renal arteries at the level of L2 vertebra. The ovarian arteries may arise from the renal, suprarenal, inferior phrenic, superior mesenteric, lumbar, common iliac, or internal iliac arteries. This was a unique case, in which both ovarian arteries originated from 2 diffe...

Pseudoaneurysm of the internal iliac artery is a rare occurrence. Our patient presented with pain over the lower abdomen which also radiated to the back. An Angiogram of the aorta and the iliac arteries showed a pseudoaneurysm of the right internal iliac artery which measured about 8 x 8 cm with a proximal branch of the internal iliac artery distended. Initial efforts of trying to embolize the ...

During a student dissection course held at the Tokyo Women's Medical University, in a 91-year-old human female cadaver we encountered a very rare case of a hypoplastic right external iliac artery. It continued into the normal femoral artery by anastomoses formed with the enlarged obturator and deep circumflex iliac arteries. While the obturator artery originated from the anterior branch of the ...

Difficulty Maintaining Pelvic Flow Internal iliac artery blood flow should be maintained if possible. In the Canadian Aneurysm Study, when internal iliac flow was maintained to one or both sides, the incidence of clinically apparent ischemic colitis was 0.3%, but when flow was interrupted bilaterally, ischemic colitis occurred in 2.6%. This observation and the current data from endovascular rep...

We report a case of secondary rupture of a common iliac artery aneurysm into the common iliac vein. Exclusion of the iliac aneurysm had been performed 2 years earlier in association with reconstruction of an aortic aneurysm that had ruptured into the interior vena cava. After closure of the aortocaval fistula by the endoaneurysmal route, aortobifemoral bypass grafting had been performed and a c...

This paper investigates the mechanical properties of blood flow in main arterial system of human. The system includes aorta, subclavian, mesosentric, iliac artery, renal artery, celiac artery. The geometric domain of artery network is obtained using a real patient data. As an input, Womersley velocity profile [2] is used. Combination of thirteen arteries with aorta gives better understanding of...