Anatomical textbooks usually cite the thyrocervical trunk, which arises from the first part of the subclavian artery, as the most common origin of the suprascapular artery [1, 2]. Variations concerning the origin of the suprascapular artery are rare but have been documented arising from all three parts of the subclavian artery, the costocervical trunk, the axillary artery, and the internal thor...

BACKGROUND One of the rare aortic congenital abnormalities is right sided aortic arch which is occurred in approximately 0.1% of the population. The anomalous origin of the subclavian arteries has also been reported. CASE REPORT In this study, a case of a right-sided aortic arch with anomalous left subclavian artery origin from the cerebral arteries is presented which was diagnosed in Compute...

BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics of 411 Chinese Takayasu's arteritis (TAK) patients using a retrospective analysis. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 810 medical charts of patients with a diagnosis of TAK who were admitted to Peking Union Medical College Hospital from 1990 to 2014. 411 patients with a complete dataset were finally included in the analysis. The...

PURPOSE The Rotarex catheter system is an effective tool for endovascular therapy of acute occluded arteries of the lower extremities, especially for the femoral artery. The authors report the use of the Rotarex catheter system for retrograde percutaneous thrombectomy of an occluded subclavian artery. CASE PRESENTATION A 79-year-old male patient was referred because of acute pain and paleness...

INTRODUCTION Bronchial arteries originate from the descending aorta at the level of the T5-T6 vertebrae following an intrapulmonary course along the major bronchi. When bronchial arteries take off from a vessel other than the descending aorta, the anatomy is defined as an anomalous origin of the bronchial artery. CASE PRESENTATION A 3-day-old boy from Kosovo with dextro-transposition of the g...

Background Multilevel significant atherosclerotic disease involving the carotid bifurcation and the proximal ipsilateral common carotid or brachiocephalic arteries presents an uncommon and difficult management problem. Axial (aortocarotid bypass) or extra-anatomic procedures (subclavian–carotid bypass, carotid–carotid bypass, carotid–subclavian transposition) and variations in the performance o...

Blood flow in the vertebral artery and the upper extremity was studied in five cases of Takayasu's arteritis with subclavian steal by use of ultrasonic Doppler flowmetry and finger plethysmography. The diagnosis of subclavian steal was made by observation of flow reversal in the vertebral artery on the subclavian steal side during grip exercise and, in addition, the vertebral flow change with b...

In previous studies of the role of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in the lung inflammatory response, we observed that tPA expression was present exclusively in the small arteries and arterioles within the lung and absent from the capillaries, veins, and large pulmonary arteries. To define more completely the expression pattern of tPA, we evaluated the distribution of this protein during pre...

We present an unusual case of coronary-subclavian steal syndrome, in the context of chronic total occlusion of native left and right coronary arteries that threatened global myocardial blood flow. The patient was a 55-year-old woman, a smoker, who presented with hypertension, obesity, and dyslipidemia. She was attended at the hospital because of progressive angina and anteroinferior ischemia, d...

The thyroid and thymic arteries were investigated in 36 male and 36 female house musk shrews. The superior thyroid artery was constant. The artery arose, in the most instances, from the external carotid arteries. The artery, in about one fourth instances, sent both the superior and inferior branches supplying the gland and the former branch terminated in the superior and inferior laryngeal arte...