Publications by authors named "Diego Lopez Garcia"
Gastrointestinal protist (GP) and soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections cause significant morbidity among children in poor-resource settings of tropical and sub-tropical countries including Colombia. Few prospective transversal studies investigating how GP and STH infections affect growth development and nutritional status during childhood have been conducted in this country, none of them in the Antioquia Department. This microscopy-based study estimated the prevalence of GP and helminth (including STH) infections in faecal samples from schoolchildren (n = 384) collected during April-May 2019 in three municipalities of the Antioquia Department.
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- A 78-year-old man with a history of abdominal infrarenal aortic surgery 20 years ago shows worsening aneurysm conditions, as seen in a CT scan.
- The scan reveals degeneration in the infrarenal aorta, a left iliac aneurysm, and a new descending thoracic aneurysm near the aortic arch.
- The surgical intervention was performed in two phases: first, both the thoracic and infrarenal aneurysms were treated with endoprostheses, and four years later, a branched iliac endograft addressed the iliac aneurysm.
Endoleak treatment after endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) can be difficult and complex. The key to success lies mostly in the accurate interpretation of imaging tests. We describe the case of a patient who was urgently operated on due to an episode of acute arterial ischemia in the left lower limb for stent-graft iliac limb thrombosis and a proximal type I endoleak.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To produce a comprehensive anatomical and hemodynamic ultrasound scan mapping of the whole limb in patients with primary varicose veins (VVs).
Design: An analysis of venous duplex scans performed on patients referred for treatment of primary VVs.
Methods: A total of 2036 limbs were evaluated, looking for the origin of VVs in the saphenous systems and in the perforating vein (PV) systems, as well as for the presence of non-saphenous reflux.
Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome is recognized as a cause of claudication and arterial occlusion in young patients. Aneurysmal degeneration is a reported but rare complication. We present the case of a young male patient with large bilateral popliteal aneurysms due to symptomatic anatomic entrapment.
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