Randomized EVAR trials and advent of level i evidence: a paradigm shift in management of large abdominal aortic aneurysms?

abstract：UNLABELLED:A variety of intraoperative imaging and assessment techniques can be used during carotid endarterectomy (CEA) to evaluate the technical results of the arterial repair. However, the necessity of utilizing these techniques routinely in every case, and the actual ability of these studies to improve the outcomes...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Rockman CB,Halm EA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main focus when discussing acute or chronic mesenteric ischemia is on occlusive disease, arterial or venous. This article reviews present knowledge on mesenteric nonocclusive hypoperfusion syndromes. The following three clinical entities are reviewed: (1) Intraabdominal hypertension (IAH), or abdominal compartment...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Björck M,Wanhainen A

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The training of vascular surgeons in Canada has evolved over the past decade. Direct entry into a vascular surgery training program after medical school has been offered since 2012. At some institutions, it is the only option for surgery training. The smaller population of Canada and a single-payer health care system ...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Duncan AA,Power AH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Innominate and subclavian artery lesions run a wide spectrum of disease manifestation and treatment options. Since the first surgical treatment, multiple variances have been attempted with the desire to maintain high long-term patency rates while reducing perioperative morbidity and mortality. The advent of endovascul...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Aiello F,Morrissey NJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While carotid angioplasty and stenting has been clearly established as a minimally invasive alternative to endarterectomy for patients with carotid occlusive disease, its indications continue to evolve, being refined as more controlled data of large studies are being accumulated. The purpose of this article is to revi...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Chaer RA,Makaroun MS

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of patients with thrombosed vein grafts remains a formidable challenge for all vascular surgeons. Management strategies will vary based on a variety of criteria including the patients' overall condition and symptoms, the interval and etiology of graft failure, and the pathological anatomy and availabili...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Belkin M,Whittemore AD

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The controversies that surround the technical aspects of transabdominal reconstruction for aortoiliac occlusive disease, and more specifically ABF, have provided lively debates during the golden era of vascular surgery. It seems almost a pity that, with the resolution of many of these issues, what has become one of th...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Rutherford RB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection of abdominal aortic aneurysms potentially can save many lives by preventing aneurysm rupture. Screening programs, however, have yet to be proven as an efficient means of accomplishing this goal and improving overall life expectancy. Until more information is available, selective high-risk screening may...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Ebaugh JL,Garcia ND,Matsumura JS

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in endovascular technologies have made catheter-based interventions a preferred treatment strategy in patients with intermittent claudication or ischemic rest pain of the lower extremity. Although the current body of literature is inundated with clinical reports favoring countless endovascular devices ...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Lin PH,Weakley SM,Kougias P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given both the high-risk nature of the critical limb ischemia (CLI) patient population, as well as the variety of available treatment options, the ability to use preprocedure variables to predict a given outcome has become increasingly important. The three main advantages associated with accurate risk stratification i...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Schanzer A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of cerebrovascular disease in women is hampered by a paucity of studies that include adequate numbers of female patients. Most studies are heavily biased toward men. Although women have fewer strokes than men and have a better long-term prognosis after strokes or TIAs, cerebrovascular disease still a...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Hurlbert SN,Krupski WC

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortoiliac occlusive disease is a significant cause of lower extremity ischemic symptoms. Over the past two decades, most patients have been treated with a variety of surgical procedures, including aortofemoral and extra-anatomic bypasses. Most recently, percutaneous balloon angioplasty and stents have been successful...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Sanchez LA,Wain RA,Veith FJ,Cynamon J,Lyon RT,Ohki T

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Innovation in medicine is often driven by the observations of imaginative physicians who are blessed with insatiable curiosity, coupled with the inability to accept technical boundaries, the status quo of patient care, or the acceptance of procedural morbidity. Few examples illustrate this truism better than the physi...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Parodi J,Bates MC,Ohki T,Schönholz C

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of carotid duplex scanning revolutionized the diagnosis of carotid artery disease. Continued advances in the technology as well as widespread experience with cartoid ultrasound have redefined the role this technology plays in the care of patients with carotid atherosclerosis. Recent clinical trials hav...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Ricci MA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) who develop hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) have very high mortality rates. For patients with HRS type I, median survival without specific therapy is only 2 weeks. Due to worsening clinical condition in such patients secondary to uremia and hepatic disease, some form of renal re...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Thorat A,Jeng LB

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic venous disease includes a spectrum of clinical presentations ranging from varicose veins through chronic lower extremity pain and edema to venous skin changes and ulceration. Such manifestations may result from primary venous insufficiency or be secondary to other disorders, primarily acute deep venous thrombo...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Tran NT,Meissner MH

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endovascular aneurysm repair has enabled a broad population of patients with infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm to be treated by a less-invasive technique. However, endovascular aneurysm repair has therapeutic limitations, including the need for lifelong surveillance and a higher rate of secondary interventions than...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Kostun ZW,Woo EY

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For generations, the use of techniques to defer skin pressure and protect the lower-extremity wound has been a cardinal goal to achieve therapeutic success and healing. Choosing the appropriate postoperative offloading device or shoe is often difficult, as it is challenging to merge optimal mechanical protection with ...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Miller J,Armstrong DG

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of vascular surgery during the past five decades has established what was once controversial to be mandate, what was never dreamed of as debatable, and the vast body of knowledge yet to be unraveled--but requiring clinical application--as currently controversial. Controversy results when dissimilar thera...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Dardik H,Greisler H

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obturator bypass is a useful method for revascularizing the lower extremity in the presence of a hazardous groin dissection. The most common indication for employing this method of reestablishing arterial continuity is in circumventing infected vascular prostheses. One- and 5-year patency rates of 72.7% and 56.9% ...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Reddy DJ,Shin LH

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endovascular aneurysm repair has proven to be a valuable alternative to open repair in selected patients. This less invasive procedure, however, requires long-term surveillance for its own set of potential complications, including perigraft leakage, or endoleak. This article focuses on the detection of these leaks, fi...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Hiatt MD,Rubin GD

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutcracker syndrome is one of the abdominal venous entrapments, caused by compression of the left renal vein between the superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta. Occasionally a retro-aortic left renal vein is compressed between the aorta and the vertebral body (posterior nutcracker syndrome). The renal vein...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Said SM,Gloviczki P,Kalra M,Oderich GS,Duncan AA,D Fleming M,Bower TC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since carotid endarterectomy was revitalized following the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial and Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis Study, results have improved. However, types of carotid endarterectomy, indications, risk factors, surgical factors, techniques, and other treatment modalities may...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Shah DM,Darling RC 3rd,Chang BB,Paty PS,Kreienberg PB,Roddy SP,Ozsvath KJ,Mehta M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vascular surgery, the gold standard for evaluation of the lower-extremity arterial tree has long been contrast arteriography (CA). Associated risks of CA are well-documented and include severe allergic reactions, arterial injury and/or hemorrhage, and contrast-induced nephropathy. Increasingly, less-invasive techni...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Hingorani A,Ascher E,Marks N

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several techniques have been developed and clinically applied to reduce the spinal cord ischemia complications that follow thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAA) repair. Hypothermia as a protective adjunct is a concept that has been used throughout the evolution of cardiac and central aortic surgery. Because experimen...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Cambria RP,Davison JK

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, 90% of carotid intervention is being performed for asymptomatic carotid stenosis, even though 90% of patients would be better treated with intensive medical therapy. This is being justified by comparing risks of stroke or death with medical therapy during clinical trials completed decades ago (ap...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Spence JD

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of venous ulceration has evolved tremendously during the last 2 decades. There has been considerable progress in our understanding of the pathophysiology, hemodynamics, venous imaging, and therapeutic options for venous ulcers, including endovenous ablation, iliac vein stenting, and vein-valve repair techni...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Verma H,Tripathi RK

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia-reperfusion injury is a continuing challenge to vascular surgeons. Microvascular factors and mechanisms underlying edema and compartment syndrome provide a useful end point for analysis and planning of therapy. We review the pivotal role of endothelium-leukocyte interactions and of cytokines in the genesis of...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Durán WN,Takenaka H,Hobson RW 2nd

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical application of serum biomarkers (d-dimer, C-reactive protein) to predict the natural history of descending thoracic aortic dissection remains elusive. In this review, our current understanding of biomarkers in descending thoracic aortic dissection detection, predicting complications, and aiding in patient...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Shalhub S,Dua A,Brooks J

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endovascular treatment of thoracic aortic pathology (ETAP) has been under development for over a decade. Only recently has one device been approved in the United States for treatment of descending thoracic aortic aneurysms. The length of this development process is due to multiple device and deployment system modifica...

journal_title：Seminars in vascular surgery

authors： Hassoun HT,Matsumura JS

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00