Injury to the Superior Gluteal Artery during Intramedullary Fixation of a Proximal Femoral Fracture - A Case Report.

Introduction: Proximal femoral fractures represent a health problem of global proportions. Iatrogenic vascular lesion in the treatment of these fractures is an unusual potentially lethal complication, reported in only 0.2% of trochanteric fractures treated with intramedullary implants.

Ultrasound-guided thrombin-gelatin injection is effective for the treatment of iatrogenic femoral artery pseudoaneurysms: initial results.

Objectives: To describe the technique of ultrasound (US)-guided percutaneous thrombin-gelatin injection for the treatment of femoral artery pseudoaneurysms (FAPs).

Background: FAPs are a possible complication from percutaneous angiographic procedures. US-guided thrombin injection is currently the preferential therapeutic option, limited by a low risk of potentially catastrophic femoral thrombosis; transluminal injection of collagen is another effective and safe option, although a more invasive one; surgical repair is associated with significant comorbidity.

[Concomitant syphilitic aneurysms of the thoracic and abdominal aorta. Case report].

The aneurismatic aortic disease is one of the most frequent conditions challenging the vascular surgeon. It can be caused by atherosclerosis, vasculitis, trauma, infection or others. The treatment, even when elective, can be associated to high rates of morbid-mortality, related to the etiology, anatomic location and type of treatment.

[Visceral artery aneurysms: alternative therapeutic approach].

The authors report two cases in which stent grafts were used to treat visceral artery aneurysms. Case number 1 was a 42-year old woman with a history of renal colic who was found to have a right renal artery aneurysm. Two 6-mm x 20-mm Wallgraft endoprosthesis (Boston Scientific, Watertown, Mass) were placed across the aneurysm neck.