abstract：:There are only 18 patients described in the English literature who had a preexisting renal transplant and underwent aortic surgery for aortoiliac occlusive disease. We describe an additional patient who was treated with a new technique using a Sundt shunt and a GraftAssist. This technique provides antegrade flow and m...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Jain KM,Munn JS,Simoni EJ

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine intraoperative imaging of the carotid artery following carotid endarterectomy can detect defects at the site of endarterectomy that may lead to neurologic morbidity. A number of methods have been used to evaluate the completed endarterectomy. In this prospective study we compared subjective methods of assessme...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Lingenfelter KA,Fuller BC,Sullivan TM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immediate inflammatory response following aortic reconstruction with two types of sealed Dacron grafts was studied in a prospective, randomized manner. C-reactive protein (CRP) levels were measured before surgery and on days 2 and 8 postoperatively. In the collagen-sealed group (n = 10) CRP levels were 10 +/- 9.6,...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Lacroix H,Boel K,Nevelsteen A,Suy R

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of transluminal techniques in an unselected group of patients and to assess long-term outcome in successful procedures. All patients in whom iliac artery recanalization was attempted were included in this study. Patients with an occluded prosthesis or recent em...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Cardon JM,Cardon A,Joyeux A,Noblet D,Gautier J,Vidal V

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report herein a feasibility study of a minimally invasive endovascular femoropopliteal bypass procedure. The steps include the following: (1) a small groin incision to expose the femoral artery, (2) guidewire passage and mechanical dilatation of the diseased superficial femoral artery, (3) semiclosed endarterectomy...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Ahn SS,Reger VA,Kaiura TL

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the impact of central venous obstruction on upper extremity hemodialysis access failure, we retrospectively analyzed our recent experience in managing this problem. We reviewed 158 upper extremity hemodialysis access procedures performed in 122 patients during a 1-year period. Fourteen (11.5%) patients had...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Criado E,Marston WA,Jaques PF,Mauro MA,Keagy BA

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperparathyroidism in association with carotid body tumor is a rare combination. A common embryologic cellular origin was postulated previously to explain this unusual occurrence. We report a case of left carotid body tumor and left inferior parathyroid adenoma. We believe this to be the sixth reported case in the li...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Ali IM,Graham C,Sanalla B,Bell D

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1990 to 1992 there was a 43% increase in the number of carotid endarterectomies (CEAs) performed at our institution. Not coincidentally the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial study was published in August 1991. To determine whether CEAs could be performed safely at community medical centers, ...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Buchbinder D,Golueke PJ,Melick CF,Leand PM,Schneider RE,Ross LH,Reichman W,Richardson JB

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal hemorrhagic necrosis is one of several possible complications of heparin-related thrombocytopenia. We report a case in which adrenal hemorrhagic necrosis developed after aortofemoral bypass. This serious complication remains difficult to diagnose in the absence of a high index of suspicion. A routine search fo...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Leschi JP,Goëau-Brissonnière O,Coggia M,Chiche L

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a potent vasoconstrictive polypeptide colocalized with norepinephrine in sympathetic neurons. The effects of ischemia and reperfusion on plasma NPY levels were studied and compared in the mongrel dog after infrarenal aortic cross-clamping. We found a two- to threefold increase in NPY levels dur...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Edwards JD,Dovgan PS,Rowley JM,Thorpe PE,Adrian TE,Agrawal DK

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1984 and 1991 a total of 200 patients underwent heart transplantation in our unit. The records of 121 patients who were followed up for more than 1 year were reviewed for peripheral vascular abnormalities, which were found in 12 (9.9%). Most of these patients underwent transplantation for ischemic heart diseas...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Julia P,Amrein C,Ghalayini B,Jebara V,Guillemain R,Roussin I,Carpentier A,Fabiani JN

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemodynamic effects of combined venoarterial injury and stasis were studied in the hindlimbs of 10 dogs. Femoral arterial blood flow and pressure, peripheral venous pressure, and peripheral resistance were measured after the restoration of blood flow following venoarterial injury and a 4-hour period of occlusion f...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Nazzal M,Bove PG,Harris JA,Bendick PJ,Glover JL

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study with random selection between primary closure and saphenous vein patching after carotid endarterectomy was conducted. Patients were evaluated with intravenous digital subtraction angiography during the initial postoperative period, followed by duplex scanning at 3 and 6 months, and then yearly exam...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： De Letter JA,Moll FL,Welten RJ,Eikelboom BC,Ackerstaff RG,Vermeulen FE,Algra A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient presenting with urinary retention was found to have progressive spinal cord ischemia subsequent to an end-to-side aortobifemoral bypass for atherosclerotic disease. This serves as a vivid reminder of the possibility of this complication even in ischemic disease and that urinary retention may be the initial s...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Gorecki JP,Ameli FM

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)] is a serum protein that has been reported to be predictive of complications from coronary and cerebrovascular atherosclerotic disease. This study was designed to compare plasma levels of Lp(a) in 100 white male patients with and without peripheral vascular disease (PVD) and to determine the rol...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Widmann MD,Sumpio BE

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods of ligating venous branches during in situ vein tibial bypass are associated with significant wound complications, especially in diabetics. Making only proximal and distal wound incisions could avoid these wound problems. We report the use of endovascular techniques with coils and balloons guided by in...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Chervu A,Ahn SS,McNamara TO,Dorsey D

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a case of defecation syncope secondary to functional inferior vena cava (IVC) obstruction. Preoperative hemodynamic assessment revealed a marked decrease in blood pressure and IVC obstruction when the patient performed a Valsalva maneuver. The intraoperative approach included continuous hemodynam...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Brophy CM,Evans L,Sumpio BE

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasospasm associated with ergotamine is a well-known phenomenon. In this case report we present a rare drug interaction between erythromycin and ergotamine at normal doses causing lower extremity ischemia in a 36-year-old woman. Nitroprusside proved to be the treatment of choice. The response was dramatic and took pla...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Ghali R,De Léan J,Douville Y,Noël HP,Labbé R

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial 37 consecutive patients to be treated at our institution with the Palmaz stent placed in the aortoiliac arteries were retrospectively reviewed. In these patients, 50 stenoses and six occlusions were treated with 128 stents. Nine patients with combined iliac and common femoral obstruction underwent common f...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Wolf YG,Schatz RA,Knowles HJ,Saeed M,Bernstein EF,Dilley RB

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective study was undertaken to evaluate the role of duplex Doppler (DD) scanning in the diagnosis of masses of suspected vascular origin at the carotid bifurcation. We also assessed the different DD signs of carotid body tumors, especially the difference in resistance index (RI) in the external carotid arter...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Barry R,Pienaar A,Pienaar C,Browning NG,Nel CJ

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most physicians are aware of the important role that platelets play in thrombus formation. The mechanisms that regulate platelet function are now understood at the molecular level. The same biologic processes that control platelet participation in the hemostatic process also allow platelets to interact with the vessel...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Rubin BG,Santoro SA,Sicard GA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resection and graft replacement of the vena cava for malignant disease is rarely performed, often because of the advanced tumor stage. Since August 1987 we have selectively performed caval replacement in conjunction with tumor resection in 11 patients. Three patients had superior vena cava reconstruction (SVCR) and ei...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Bower TC,Nagorney DM,Toomey BJ,Gloviczki P,Pairolero PC,Hallett JW Jr,Cherry KJ Jr

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the late results of eight palmar bypass procedures performed between 1983 and 1988 in eight men patients with a mean age of 43 years old, who presented with unilateral digital trophic disorders. The origin of the arterial lesions was post-traumatic in four cases, embolic in three cases, and aneurysm...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Barral X,Favre JP,Gournier JP,Farcot M,Cambou S

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for enhanced surgical exposure for the high extracranial (Zone III) internal carotid artery is not uncommon. In certain circumstances, the posterior border and angle of the mandible may interfere with access to the distal internal carotid artery (ICA). The use of modified mandibular osteotomies has provided v...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Nelson SR,Schow SR,Stein SM,Read LA,Talkington CM

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a seven year period 52 patients having a clinical diagnosis of spontaneous peripheral arterial microembolization were identified. Sixty-one percent of patients were female, 15% were diabetic, and 73% used tobacco chronically. A striking finding was the very high incidence of associated systemic disorders such as ...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Katz SG,Kohl RD

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beginning in April 1989, we have performed eight upper thoracic chemical sympathectomies by transthoracic endoscopy. The indications were occlusive arterial disease in four patients and Raynaud's syndrome and palmar hyperhidrosis in two patients each. Transthoracic endoscopy was performed under general anesthesia, thr...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Bardaxoglou E,Reigner B,Enon B,Tolstuchow N,Lescalié F,Peret M,Chevalier JM

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1977 and December 1990, eight patients underwent surgical correction of aneurysms of the extracranial internal carotid artery due to fibromuscular dysplasia. Mean age of patients was 50 years (range 31 to 70 years). Five patients presented with neurologic hemispheric symptoms. Most aneurysms were saccu...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Bour P,Taghavi I,Bracard S,Frisch N,Fiévé G

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10 year retrospective study of 103 patients with amaurosis fugax was done. Sixty-two patients with symptoms of amaurosis fugax underwent arteriography, which demonstrated ulcerated carotid plaque in 36 and hemodynamically significant stenoses (greater than 75% diameter reduction) in 26. These 62 patients underwent c...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Rosenthal D,Hungerpiller JC,Crispin ME,Clark MD,Lamis PA,Pallos LL

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weakness in the musculotendinous barrier of the abdominal wall leads to inguinal herniation. Fiber degeneration by increased metabolism has been described recently as a causative factor. In previous investigations heightened elastase was detected in abdominal aneurysms. In order to investigate a possible relationship ...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Lehnert B,Wadouh F

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal elasticities of whole human blood clot, whole canine blood clot, Factor XIII cross-linked fibrin, glutaraldehyde-fixed human albumin, and formaldehyde-fixed collagen, gelatin and collagen/gelatin were determined and normalized to human whole blood clot. Matrices of a knitted Dacron graft were then impregn...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Patel M,Kaplan A,Sauvage LR,Wu HD,Kaplan S,Usui Y,Walker MW

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the hemodynamic effects and safety of saline irrigation necessary to obtain high-quality completion angioscopic studies, as compared with standard completion arteriography during infrainguinal bypass grafting. One-hundred ten patients undergoing primary infrainguinal bypass grafting, were prospect...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Kwolek CJ,Miller A,Stonebridge PA,Lavin P,Lewis KP,Tannenbaum GA,Gibbons GW,Pomposelli FB Jr,Freeman DV,Campbell DR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-two bypass grafts to the peroneal artery were performed at the University of Rochester Medical Center between 1984 and 1990. An autogenous conduit was used in 45 patients and a prosthetic conduit in 17 patients. Primary cumulative patency rates were 49% at two years and 30% at four years following operation. Lim...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Shortell CK,Ouriel K,DeWeese JA,Green RM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1982 and 1991 we performed eight operations on seven patients with carotid artery aneurysms. Their mean age was 52.8 years (range: 20-67 years). Five aneurysms were atherosclerotic, one was associated with Marfan's syndrome, and two were pseudoaneurysms, one occurring after Dacron patch angioplasty and the oth...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Petrovic P,Avramov S,Pfau J,Fabri M,Obradovic J,Vukobratov V

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a single case of Kawasaki's disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome) with the rare complication of a hepatic artery aneurysm which was surgically repaired. Unusual features include arterial aneurysmal formation in the hepatic arteries rather than in coronary arteries, the unusual morphology of the hepat...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Caputo AE,Roberts WN,Yee YS,Posner MP

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic approach to a patient with concomitant abdominal aortic aneurysm and colorectal carcinoma is not clear. Decision analysis helps clarify decision options and quantify therapeutic outcomes. Variables used in decision analysis include life expectancy after resection for colorectal cancer and abdominal aor...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Velanovich V,Andersen CA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial aneurysm formation occurs in 15 to 20% of patients with Takayasu's disease. The timing of surgical intervention of these aneurysms is controversial. A case of ectasia of the descending thoracic aorta in a patient with Takayasu's disease is presented. The diagnosis and timing of surgical intervention of aneury...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Cull DL,Parent FN 3rd,Wheeler JR,Gregory RT,Snyder SO Jr,Gayle RG

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although retrograde vertebral artery flow was described over 100 years ago, its relationship to symptoms remains unclear. We documented 43 patients who were found by duplex scanning to have reverse flow in the vertebral artery. Of this group, seven patients (16%) were found to have symptoms described as typical for th...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Nicholls SC,Koutlas TC,Strandness DE

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 42-year-old black man, a physician, presented with a three week history of intermittent right arm and leg numbness and weakness, lasting about five minutes. This was not associated with headache, visual changes, seizures, aphasia or loss of consciousness. There was no history of head trauma, migraines, or previous a...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Freischlag JA,Machleder HI

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic, monofilament, absorbable suture material, polytrimethylene carbonate, was tested to determine its suitability for use in arterial anastomoses. The material studied is a copolymer made of trimethylene carbonate and polyglycolic acid, with a retention time in the tissue of up to six months. In an experiment...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Schmitz-Rixen T,Storck M,Erasmi H,Schmiegelow P,Horsch S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance of carotid endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid stenosis has been restricted during recent years because of concern of reported complications in as high as 10-15% of patients, as well as limited long-term data on stroke protection. During the last 10 years, we have studied immediate and long-term result...

journal_title：Annals of vascular surgery

authors： Anderson RJ,Hobson RW 2nd,Padberg FT Jr,Pecoraro JP,DeGroote RD,Jamil Z,Lee BC,Breitbart GB,Franco CD

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00