The knowledge of variations in the superficial veins is of clinical importance for the anatomist, radiologists, clinical practitioners and surgeons in order to plan about the operative procedures. Usually cephalic vein drains into the axillary vein. In this case report study the left cephalic vein communicates with the left external jugular vein and made a common trunk at th...

recently multiple studies have shown that elevated homocysteine levels may be associated with ophthalmic vascular disease. to investigate the role of high plasma levels of homocysteine in the patients with retinal vein occlusion, 21 patients with retinal vein occlusion (rvo) and 20 age and sex matched controls without rvo were included in this retrospective case–control study. information regar...

acute venous congestion leads to blood stasis in the tissue and impaired blood perfusion. using medicinal leech is an old method of reducing tissue congestion. there are numerous factors in leech saliva and hirudin that have important roles in the leeching beneficial effect. in this study, an animal study was performed to compare leech therapy with heparin therapy in the treatment of acute veno...

background: deep vein thrombosis (dvt) can be an ethnicity related disease and an important health issue for health-care systems. thus, domestic recognition of risk factors and disease characteristics seem to be inevitable. this study was designed to evaluate the epidemiology, basic characteristics, and risk factors in patients with dvt. materials and methods: in this descriptive cross-sectiona...

backgrounds: there are controversies among surgeons about prophylaxis of deep vein thrombosis (dvt) in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. the aim of this study was the assessment of patients’ condition after laparoscopic cholecystectomy without any prophylactic measure. methods: 100 cases of laparoscopic cholecystectomy without dvt prophylaxis were followed by duplex scanning in the first postoperat...

background: eosinophilic gastroenteritis (eg) is rare and is characterized by recurrent eosinophilic infiltration of the gastrointestinal tract and chronic diarrhea. in this report we present a case of eg with acute pancreatitis and deep vein thrombosis (dvt). case presentation: a 30 years old male was admitted to our hospital with the complaints of epigastric pain, vomitting and swelling of hi...

in order to create an effective arteriovenous fistula (avf) in patients with sustained chronic renal failure (crf), surgeons need to become familiar with various anatomical variations of venous structures in the operating field. because of variety and different types of cubital venous anatomies, there is more than a 90% possibility of creating suitable avfs in the cubital fossa , but in the wri...

a 28-year-old, 32 week pregnant primigravida woman with a past history of increased blood pressure presented with ruq pain as well as sudden onset of hematemesis. this case illustrates the occurrence of a rare complication (rupture of portal vein pseudoaneurysm inside the biliary system), appearing as upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a pregnant woman. the cause of the rupture is presumably pr...

Introducción: Las fracturas de cóndilo presentan una alta incidencia dentro las mandíbula. Son principalmente tratadas por reducción abierta y fijación interna mediante elementos osteosíntesis (ORIF), o cerrada (CR) con máxilo-mandibular (MMF). El tratamiento asistido endoscopio estas fracturas, ofrece alternativa complemento quirúrgico a limitaciones que se pueden presentar en la ORIF clásica....

postoperative portal vein thrombosis is a rare complication which occurs most often after hepatobiliary surgery.to date, few cases following laparoscopic cho lecystectomy have been reported. in this paper we present a case of portal vein thrombosis diagnosed with abdominal ct scan on the seventh day following laparoscopic cholecystectomy.the patient was administered therapeutic intravenous hepa...