Integration of endovascular therapy of ruptured abdominal and iliac aneurysms in the treatment algorithm: a single-center experience in a medium-volume vascular center.

Purpose: To evaluate the influence of endovascular therapy of ruptured abdominal or iliac aneurysms on total mortality.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed the mortality of 40 patients from 2005 to 2009, when only surgical treatment was available. These results were compared with the period 2010 to 2013, when endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) was assessed as the first option in selected patients.

Idiopathic vs. secondary retroperitoneal fibrosis: a clinicopathological study of 12 cases, with emphasis to possible relationship to IgG4-related disease.

Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RF) is a rare disease characterized by inflammation and fibrosis of retroperitoneal soft tissues. It is classified into two types: idiopathic (iRF) and secondary (sRF). The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between iRF and IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) and to eventually extend the clinicopathological features of this condition by analysis of the sample comprising six iRF and six sRF patients.

[A case report of endoleak type Ib and IIIa combination after endovascular subrenal aneurysm repair].

Authors describe a case report of complications and theirs solutions after endovascular abdominal aneurysm repair. There was symptomatic progression of aneurysmal sac due to endoleak type Ib in this patient 4 years after successful stentgraft treatment. Endovascular treatment was done with optimal effect, but aneurysm sac rupture had early become.

[Clostridial sepsis and gas gangrene of the abdominal wall after cholecystectomy].

Clostridial sepsis is a rare complication after intraabdominal operations, mostly fatal. According to our knowledge only two papers describing clostridial sepsis as postoperative complication in 4 patients were published in the Czech literature, only one of them survived. Authors present a case report of patient operated on for cholecystolithiasis and obstructive icterus where within 48 hours after cholecystectomy the clostridial sepsis and gas gangrene of the abdominal wall developed and that were successfuly managed.

Testing intestinal permeability in rats with burns and administration of early enteral nutrition.

Damaged intestinal mucosa in patients with extensive burns is one of the causes of the development of SIRS and MOFS. No unequivocal method has been established so far for assessment of the extent of damage of the intestinal mucosa. In the presented work the authors focus their attention on assessment of intestinal permeability in rats with burns.