Use of a Silver-Impregnated Vascular Graft: Single-Center Experience.

Introduction: Vascular graft infection is a life threatening situation with significant morbidity and mortality. Bacterial graft infection can lead to false aneurysms, bleeding and sepsis. There are a lot of risky situations where grafts can become infected.

Management of Concomitant Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and Intra-abdominal, Retroperitoneal Malignancy.

Background/aim: As the population ages, there are increasing findings of coincidental diseases such as abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and intra-abdominal, retroperitoneal malignancy. The aim of this study was to propose an optimal treatment procedure for these patients.

Patients And Methods: Over a twenty-year-period, surgery was performed on a total of 1,098 patients with AAA and 32 (2.

[Pros and cons of dual kidney transplantation].

Dual kidney transplantation is one of the options to utilize so called marginal grafts, kidneys that would be insufficient for normal single transplantation. This time consuming and burdensome surgical procedure can be beneficial in precisely selected patients. This method requires correct algorithm of donors and recipients selections, than we can expect the best results.

Acute Conditions Caused by Infectious Aortitis.

Unlabelled: Infection of the aorta is rare but potentially very dangerous. Under normal circumstances the aorta is very resistant to infections. Following some afflictions, the infection can pass to the aorta from blood or the surrounding tissues.

Optimization of the model of abdominal aortic aneurysm--experiment in an animal model.

Background: Many studies have been performed in order to model abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in an experimental animal, most commonly in small laboratory animals. In our study, we tried to find the best AAA model in a pig by using various mechanical and enzymatic mechanisms.

Methods: Twenty-two pigs were operated on.

Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms - university center experience.

Objectives: Mortality of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (RAAA) is still very high. Various factors contribute to the patients' mortality. Some of them could be affected.

First kidney transplantation from a non-heart-beating donor in the Czech Republic.

The long-lasting decline in the number of kidney donors with brain death in recent years is the reason for a quest for new sources of kidney donors in the Czech Republic. One possible source to increase the number of donor kidneys is the program of obtaining kidneys from non-heart-beating donors (NHBDs). Based on previous experience abroad, optimum hospital conditions, and, first of all, three years of experimental work, it was possible to realise an NHBD program for the first time in the Czech Republic, in the Transplant Centre of the Plzen Hospital in early 2002.