The recurrence of iatrogenic femoral artery pseudoaneurysm after occlusion by ultrasound guided percutaneous thrombin injection.

Aims: To evaluate efficacy of percutaneous ultrasound-guided thrombin injection (UGTI) of iatrogenic femoral artery pseudoaneurysm (PSA) and to identify the risk factors associated with PSA recurrence.

Methods And Results: We treated 140 patients aged 76 years (range 49-83) presented with femoral artery PSA after cardiac catheterisation by percutaneous UGTI (500 IU/ml solution of activated human thrombin). Factors associated with the recurrence of PSA were analysed.

Left internal mammary artery bypass dysfunction after revascularization of moderately narrowed coronary lesions. Colour-duplex ultrasound versus angiography study.

Background: The left internal mammary artery (LIMA) is the conduit of choice for revascularization of coronary arteries and its popularity further increases in the era of mini-invasive coronary surgery. The aim of this study was first, to assess the accuracy of CDUS in predicting the LIMA graft dysfunction as compared to angiography, and secondly, to correlate the postoperative status of the LIMA graft with preoperative coronary artery stenosis severity of the bridged lesion.

Methods And Results: We examined 111 patients (pts) by colour-duplex ultrasound after myocardial revascularization by LIMA bypass (3.

Frequency of abdominal aortic aneurysm in patients >60 years of age with coronary artery disease.

Using B-mode ultrasound, we studied the prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA; diameter > or =3 cm) and its predictive risk factors in 109 consecutive patients who were >60 years of age and had coronary artery disease (CAD). A group of 60 age-matched patients who did not have CAD served as controls. The prevalence of AAA was higher in the CAD group than in the control group (14%, 16 of 109, vs 3%, 2 of 60, p <0.

[Treatment of pseudoaneurysms with injection of thrombin].

Objectives: To introduce and assess the efficacy and risks associated with a new treatment method of post-catheterization pseudoaneurysms.

Methods: Thrombin injection was indicated in patients with failure of compression therapy during 24 hours. Patients with a cavity volume < 1 cm3, with a pseudoaneurysm causing compression or haemorrhagic shock were excluded.

The internal mammary artery bypass--the principles of preoperative and postoperative diagnosis using colour-duplex ultrasound.

Background: The aim of the study was the assessment of functional characteristics of the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) bypass in patients after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in comparison with the native LIMA using colour-duplex ultrasound as the non-invasive diagnostic method.

Methods: We examined 303 patients after myocardial revascularization with the internal mammary artery bypass using the Hewllett Packard 2500, 5500 ultrasound units. Using the 7.