Articles & Issues

The concept of laparoscopic aortic surgery, as initially envisioned by Dion and Gracia in the early 1990s, was attractive: durability of a classic aortic repair without the collateral damage of the op...

Objective: Secondary interventions after endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) remain a concern. Most are simple catheter-based procedures, but in some instances, open conversions (OCs) are required and...

Although in use for digital subtraction angiography (DSA) since about the 1970s, carbon dioxide remains a very useful contrast medium in our ever-growing population of patients with renal insufficienc...

Objective: The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of smoking on perioperative outcomes of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), aneurysm sac behavior, abdominal aortic aneurysm (A...

Objective: Sac shrinkage is a surrogate marker of success after endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). We set out to determine if any common cardioprotective medications had a beneficial effect on sac s...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the safety of emergency carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in patients with carotid stenosis and unstable neurological symptoms. Methods: This prospective...

Objective: The objective of this study was to review a single-institution contemporary experience with extracranial aneurysms of the carotid artery. Methods: A retrospective review was conducted of pa...

Background: The appropriate application of endovascular intervention vs bypass for both critical limb ischemia (CLI) and intermittent claudication (IC) remains controversial, and outcomes from large, ...

Dr Mark R. Nehler (Aurora, Colo). Dr Danczyk and colleagues from Oregon Health & Science University present a comparison series of either multiple vs isolated endovascular treatment with stents in...

Background: This study compared calf muscle hemoglobin oxygen saturation (Sto2) and exercise performance during standardized treadmill exercise in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) who des...

Objective: To evaluate our experience with the endovascular treatment of total occlusions of the mesenteric and celiac arteries. Methods: We performed a retrospective review of endovascular stenting o...

Introduction: Postoperative pulmonary embolism (PE) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality after bariatric surgery. However, the concurrent prophylactic placement of an inferior vena cava filte...

Objective: There has been an increasing awareness of the superiority of native arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) over prosthetic grafts for dialysis access. Many AVFs fail to mature, however, and others d...

Objective: Bovine pericardial patches (BPP) are frequently used for arterial reconstruction, but little data exist regarding their ability to resist infection. We hypothesize that BPP would provide a ...

Objective: This study evaluated the contribution of Aptus EndoStaples (Aptus Endosystems, Sunnyvale, Calif) in the proximal fixation of eight endografts used in the endovascular repair of abdominal ao...

Introduction: Establishing an aneurysm model using simple and easy operative techniques is desirable to develop new endovascular treatment devices such as stent grafts. We developed an aneurysm model ...

Ectopic liver is defined as liver parenchyma situated outside the liver proper with no connection to native hepatic tissue. This rare developmental anomaly is most commonly described as an attachment ...

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is a cause of end-stage renal disease associated with abdominal aortic aneurysms. We report a patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease who...

A 38-year-old man underwent ligation of the superior mesenteric vein due to traumatic disruption. He developed severe bowel edema with large fluid losses through the open abdominal incision. On postop...

We report a rare case of nonaneurysmal infectious aortitis (IA) with the causative microorganism being Escherichia coli. The patient was a 78-year-old man who presented with a 3-week history of abdomi...

A 62-year-old man presented to the emergency department with dyspnea on exertion and bilateral leg edema 4 days after falling down stairs and sustaining injuries. The physical examination showed mild...

The rate of growth in health care costs in the United States is simply unsustainable. In this economic climate, health care providers will increasingly be asked to justify the existence of health care...

A sales representative from Megastint approached Dr A. Krasia with an offer to financially support future educational conferences and allow his institution to be a training center if he participates i...

Objective: The introduction of endovascular aneurysm repair has resulted in a decline in open abdominal aortic aneurysm repairs performed by vascular residents. The purpose of this study was to evalua...

Background: We report our initial experience with LeGoo (Pluromed Inc, Woburn, Mass), a temporary thermoreversible occlusive gel, in peripheral vascular revascularization. Methods: Between 2007 and 20...

In 1912, the Nobel Prize in medicine was given to Alexis Carrel, recognizing his research achievements in operations on blood vessels and the transplantation of organs. He was not a clinical surgeon a...

Covered stent exclusion of intragraft dialysis access graft pseudoaneurysms is correlated with a high rate of eventual graft infection.

Stent treatment of focal infrapopliteal arterial lesions can be improved with the use of sirolimus-eluting stents compared with bare-metal stents.

The incidence of hemorrhagic complications is likely increased in patients with acute ischemic stroke secondary to large artery disease who are treated with combination antiplatelet therapy.

In patients undergoing carotid artery stenting (CAS) who have a lipid-rich plaque, the use of a proximal cerebral protection system during CAS results in lower numbers of microemboli compared with dis...