Introduction The ability of the profunda femoris artery and its branches to maintain a viable and, in certain circumstances, normally functioning lower limb in the presence of an occluded superficial femoral artery has long been recognized. Leeds and Gilfillan (1961) and Morris et al. (1961) both described the successful treatment of groups of patients with combined aorto-iliac and femoropoplit...

A 28-year-old German-Caucasian man arrived with deep vein thrombosis DVT, pain, oedema and rubor of right lower limb and drug abuse. The US Doppler imaging showed an autogenic AV fistula and false aneurysm of the right superficial femoral artery and femoral vein. The CT imaging showed additional closing of the left external iliac artery and common femoral artery, and of the distal and middle pa...

Corresponding author: Yunseok Jeon, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Yeongun-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul 110-744, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2072-2465, Fax: 82-2-747-5639, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org...

Introduction The ability of the profunda femoris artery and its branches to maintain a viable and, in certain circumstances, normally functioning lower limb in the presence of an occluded superficial femoral artery has long been recognized. Leeds and Gilfillan (1961) and Morris et al. (1961) both described the successful treatment of groups of patients with combined aorto-iliac and femoropoplit...

Objectives. To determine the impact of prolonged strenuous exercise on endothelial function in non-elite runners. Methods. Nine males participating as recreational runners (age: 49.5 ± 5.1y) at the Santiago of Cali Half-marathon (21.1 Km) were studied. Endothelium dependent femoral artery flow-mediated dilatation (FA-FMD) was evaluated one day before the race and at 1h, 24h, 48h, and 6 days aft...

Stent fracture is one of the major factors compromising implanted stent patency due to its consequences including in-stent restenosis, thrombosis, perforation, and migration. Stent fracture can occur from stress (extrinsic or intrinsic) and biomechanical forces at different implantation sites. We report on 2 cases of stent fractures and pertinent literature. One patient, a 75-year-old male, pre...

True atherosclerotic aneurysms of superficial femoral artery (SFA) are rare and often associated with other peripheral or aortic aneurysms. We report the case of a 84-year-old patient presenting a giant degenerative ruptured aneurysm of the superficial femoral artery. The patient underwent successful aneurysm resection and bypass grafting, with a satisfying long-term follow-up and patency of th...

PURPOSE Since we reported about a landmark technique to reopen an occluded subclavian artery, we have faced difficulty in using protection devices in the vertebral artery to protect against thromboembolism from the reversed steal phenomenon after angioplasty and stenting. Therefore, we are presenting an optimal solution in using a protection device while recanalizing the occluded subclavian art...

OBJECTIVE Define a security zone to avoid possibles vascular and ligamentar complications during anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. METHODS Arthroscopic reconstruction using the transtibial and transportal technique in cadaver knees was performed followed by dissection and measurement of the distance between the femoral tunnel and the proximal attachment of the lateral collateral liga...