popliteal artery injuries are mainly seen in military experience. this study was undertaken in a civilian vascular surgical unit with a large trauma workload dealing with traffic accidents. a retrospective review of patients treated between 1995 and 2001 was undertaken. 145 cases of popliteal artery injuries were treated. these cases included 46.89% compound and lacerated injuries due to traffi...

abstract vascular injury presents a great challenge to the emergency resident because these injuries require urgent intervention to prevent loss of life or limb. sometimes serious vascular injury presents with only subtle or occult signs or symptoms. the patient may present weeks or months after initial injury with symptoms of vascular insufficiency, embolization, pseudoaneurysm, arteriovenous ...

objective proteus syndrome is an extremely rare, sporadic and progressive disorder. we describe a four-month-old male baby with central nervous system manifestations in this article. clinical presentation a four-month-old boy was admitted into our hospital with three tonic - clonic generalized seizure attacks which started from the day before admission. each seizure attack lasted less than 10 m...

preeclampsia is an important pregnancy disorder with serious maternal and fetal complications which its etiology has not been completely understood yet. early diagnosis and management of disease could reduce its potential side effects. the vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) family including vegf-a is the most potent endothelial growth factor which induces angiogenesis and endothelial cel...

abstract- studies of the epidemiology of civilian vascular trauma in developing countries are rather few. this is a prospective study of our experience with vascular trauma in a referral university hospital in tehran, iran. the aim was to study the etiology, pattern of injuries and the mortality and morbidity rates due to vascular trauma in our population. in this cross-sectional study, all tra...

The retinal <span>vascular morphological caliber changes reveal the signs of systemic health disorder and life threat diseases such as cardio cerebral diseases. quantitative vascular parameters like narrowed arteries, widened venules, reduced artery-vein ratio (AVR) have been associated with aforesaid disorders Hence biomarker AVR is important parameter in diagnosing variety accurate quan...

A confidence interval is an interval (i.e., a range of values) estimate of a parameter of a population (e.g., a mean) calculated from a sample drawn from the population. A confidence interval has an associated confidence level, which is frequency with which a calculated confidence interval is expected to contain the population parameter. Confidence intervals are of interest in modeling and simu...

congenital anomalies of the great thoracic vessels have been reported in 20% of dogs and cats. in some cases, the vascular ring anomalies remain unrecognized throughout the lifetime of an animal. this report describes a case with an unusual vascular ring anomaly (vra) that was detected during dissection on a cadaver of an approximately two-year-old male native mixed breed dog. no history of the...

case presentation we reported a 2-year-old boy with pph, who presented unusual and intractable seizure which suggested the diagnosis of md. we also reviewed a few previous reports about the association of pph with moyamoya disease. discussion moyamoya disease is a kind of cerebral vasculopathy and should be considered as a differential diagnosis for patients with unusual seizure attacks who are...