[Role of duplex ultrasound for lower limb artery, abdominal aorta, and carotid artery surgery follow-up].

Long-term post-surgery follow-up is an essential part of the surgical and medical care for vascular surgery patients with peripheral arterial disease. Close collaboration with the patient's primary care physician is essential. In addition to close surveillance of the outcome after vascular surgery, follow-up includes an assessment and appropriate treatment of cardiovascular risk factors.

Endarterectomy of the aneurysm sac in open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair reduces perigraft seroma and improves graft incorporation.

Background: Fluid around the graft in the original aneurysm sac after open abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair is a poorly researched phenomenon. If large, such perigraft seroma can cause symptoms of compression, and cases of rupture have even been described. We assessed whether endarterectomy of the aneurysm sac reduces the incidence of perigraft fluid and improves graft incorporation.