[Systemic sclerosis and macrovascular involvement: Status of the issue in 2019].

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare immune disease leading to fibrosis of the skin and internal organs. Microvasculopathy is a hallmark of SSc. However, some patients have severe macrovascular complications as affecting cerebral, cardiac or peripheral vessels.

Pulmonary hypertension in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms: A large cohort of 183 patients.

Background: Chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) are recognized as a cause of pulmonary hypertension (pH). We ought to describe the prevalence and characteristics of PH in a cohort of MPN who were screened using transthoracic echocardiography (TTE).

Methods: One hundred eighty-three newly diagnosed consecutive MPN patients were prospectively evaluated using TTE to detect PH.

Incidence, risk profile and morphological pattern of lower extremity venous thromboembolism after urological cancer surgery.

Purpose: We examined the incidence of asymptomatic and symptomatic lower extremity venous thromboembolism in patients who underwent urological surgery for cancer, and identified preoperative and operative risk factors predictive of the thromboembolism.

Materials And Methods: A cohort of 583 consecutive patients undergoing urological cancer surgery was prospectively assessed using complete lower limb ultrasound at postoperative day 7 from January 2005 to July 2009. In all patients heparin and mechanical thromboprophylaxis were prescribed until complete ambulation.

[Recurrent pericarditis revealing a systemic sarcoidosis].

Introduction: Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disorder of unknown cause, mainly involving the lung and the mediastinum. Involvement of the pericardium and peritoneum is rare, but can be the first manifestation of the disease.

Case Report: A 55-year-old female patient was followed-up for a recurrent "idiopathic" pericarditis.

Efficacy of Viabahn in the treatment of severe superficial femoral artery lesions: which factors influence long-term patency?

Purpose: To evaluate superficial femoral artery (SFA) occlusive disease treatment by means of covered stents.

Study Design: retrospective.

Method: From 2000 to 2005, a Hemobahn/Viabahn endoprosthesis was implanted in 102 limbs (95 patients; mean age: 72.

[The ictal bradycardia syndrome: a case report and review of the literature].

Epilepsy is a rare cause of sinus node dysfunction which should be recognised. The authors report the case of a 55 year old woman with refractory epilepsy who had sinus arrest during her epileptic fits. After excluding a possible interaction by long-term Carbamazepine treatment, the diagnosis of the Ictal bradycardia syndrome was made in view of the simultaneous occurrence of severe bradycardia and epileptic activity recorded on electro-encephalography.

[Pericarditis: a giant cell arteritis manifestation].

Introduction: Temporal arteritis is a vasculitis in which inflammatory manifestations mainly involve the external carotid artery area but not exclusively. Through a clinical observation and a review of the literature, we suggest that inflammatory pericarditis could represent a manifestation of temporal arteritis.

Exegesis: A 75-year-old-woman was admitted for progressive physical deterioration which had been evolving for three months, associated with fever, frontotemporal cephalalgia and severe biological inflammatory syndrome.

[Necrotic myocarditis in acute eosinophilic lymphoblastic leukaemia].

Introduction: Hypereosinophilia can cause severe cardiac complications. The association between an acute lymphoblastic leukemia and hypereosinophilia was rare. We report a case of a 29-year-old man who presented a heart failure secondary to necrotic myocarditis related to an acute eosinophilic lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Efficacy of Hemobahn in the treatment of superficial femoral artery lesions in patients with acute or critical ischemia: a comparative study with claudicants.

Purpose: To assess the results of covered stents in the treatment of superficial femoral artery (SFA) occlusive disease.

Method: From July 2000 till June 2003, 32 patients (34 limbs) were scheduled for procedures including Hemobahn deployment in the SFA. Indication for treatment was claudication (group I, N=15 patients and 16 limbs, 31.

Endovascular treatment of iliocaval occlusion due to idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis.

Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis is a rare cause of venous occlusion that is mainly treated conservatively or surgically. However, endovascular techniques can be proposed for its treatment. We report here a case of a 64-year-old man who was admitted for bilateral lower limb swelling due to iliocaval occlusion caused by idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis.

Laparoscopy-assisted reconstruction to treat severe aortoiliac occlusive disease: early and midterm results.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the consequences on patient selection and on early and midterm results of the learning curve of a surgical team performing laparoscopy-assisted surgery in the treatment of severe aortoiliac occlusive disease (AIOD).

Patients And Method: Between January 1998 and June 2003, 58 patients (53 men, 5 women; mean age, 59.5 years [range, 37-76 years]) were included in a prospective study and underwent a laparoscopy-assisted aortofemoral reconstruction with graft implantation through a 5-cm to 8-cm minilaparotomy.