Successful endovascular repair of blunt traumatic innominate artery transection with covered stent graft.

We have presented the case of a 20-year-old woman who had been involved in a motor vehicle collision with innominate artery transection. Because of her concomitant possible cerebral injury, she was deemed at extremely high risk of postoperative neurologic dysfunction if undergoing open surgical repair. Using intravascular ultrasound and angiography, the lesion was evaluated, and covered stents were deployed across the lesion.

Racial and Gender Disparity in Achieving Optimal Medical Therapy for Inpatients with Peripheral Artery Disease.

Best medical therapy for peripheral artery disease (PAD) includes statin and anti-platelet agents, a combination shown to decrease rates of major cardiovascular events. Despite these findings, many patients remain undertreated and the objective of this project was to investigate the rate of initiating anti-platelet and statin therapy for inpatients newly diagnosed with PAD with a focus on disparities by race and sex. A retrospective chart review of inpatients with newly diagnosed PAD was performed between January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 at a single institution.

Zebrafish embryos sequester and retain petrochemical combustion products: developmental and transcriptome consequences.

Zebrafish embryos are a model for studying effects of environmental stressors on development. Incomplete combustion of the environmentally relevant volatile petrochemical, 1,3-butadiene (BD) yields butadiene soot (BDS) nanoparticles, to which polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are adsorbed. In mammalian cells these PAHs are concentrated in lipid droplets and trigger up-regulation of biotransformation, oxidative stress and inflammatory genes.