Renal transplantation has become the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease due to advances in surgical techniques, perioperative management, and immunosuppressive regimens. Surgical techniques for kidney transplantation were first described in 1951 by Kuss et al. and have since changed very little. The most common surgical procedure is extraperitoneal transplantation in the right ilia...

Hypertension is a major factor that contributes to the development of the vascular complications of diabetes mellitus, which primarily include atherosclerosis, nephropathy, and retinopathy. The mechanism of the pathophyslologkal effects of hypertension lies at the cellular level in the blood vessel wall, which intimately involves the function and interaction of the endothelial and vascular smoo...

A mong patients undergoing diagnostic cardiac catheterization, transradial access leads to improved quality of life after the procedure, is strongly preferred by patients, and reduces hospital costs.1 Transradial coronary angiography and angioplasty is safe, feasible, and effective, with results similar to those of the transfemoral approach.2 Although complications are infrequent, they do occur...

1 Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai 200233, China 2The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong 3University of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA 4Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 200031, China 5 Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Roug...

Kidney transplantation evolved as the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease. Accumulated expertise and experience along with refined surgical techniques resulted in excellent patient and graft survival. Despite the improvements in surgical techniques vascular complications consists a significant and sometimes life-threatening problem that occurs in 10-20% of patients. Vascular complic...

A recent study by researchers at Penn Medicine shows that incisionless transcathether aortic valve replacement (TAVR) surgery can cut down the length of hospital stay by 30%. It was also shown that there was no impact on post-operative vascular complication rates when compared with conventional transfemoral TAVR, which requires an incision in the groin. The study is published in Circulation: Ca...

INTRODUCTION Lymphorrhea due to classical and mini-invasive surgical interventions on femoral and popliteal arteries is a serious hindrance to patient treatment. Depending on the experience of a particular center, the incidence and frequency of this type of complication may constitute a serious clinical problem. While the level of lymphorrhea intensity and its duration result in certain foresee...