[Endovascular methods of treatment for acute thromboses of lower limb arteries].

The article exemplifies that a group of patients presenting with acute thrombosis of lower- limb arteries appears to belong to the severest patient cohort, whose treatment remains a difficult task for a vascular surgeon, since the solution of this problem cannot be limited to thrombectomy alone, and in the overwhelming majority of cases should be completed by removing the cause of thrombogenesis, to put it more precisely, by a reconstructive vascular operation, for instance, thromboendarterectomy (bypass grafting, prosthetic repair reconstruction), or by an endovascular procedure. All this taken into consideration compels the investigators to search for safer, minimally invasive and at the same time efficient methods of treatment. Endovascular methods aimed at restoration of the arterial lumen meet these requirements to a considerable degree.

[Hemolytic thrombectomy and stenting of the superior mesenteric artery in acute mesenteric thrombosis (a clinical case report)].

Presented herein is a clinical case report concerning successful rheolytic thrombectomy (using the AngioJet catheter) followed by stenting and having yielded a good angiographic and clinical outcome in a female patient suffering from thrombosis of the superior mesenteric artery.

Rheolytic thrombectomy: possibilities and first results.

The present study was undertaken to investigate the possibilities of using the method of rheolytic thrombectomy (hereinafter referred to as RTE) in surgical practice, and to assess its immediate outcomes in treatment of thromboses of arteries and veins of the lower extremities, as well as transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (hereinafter referred to as TIPS). We have gained experience in carrying out a total of 33 rheolytic thrombectomies with the help of the system JET 9000 (R) using the Xpeedior catheter in a total of thirty-one 43-to-87-year-old patients. Twenty-four interventions were performed for acute thromboses of arteries and shunts of the lower limbs, five - in patients presenting with floating thrombi in the inferior vena cava, and four operations were carried out in patients diagnosed with thrombosis of the segment after TIPS.