Aorto-femoral bypass and determinants of early success and late favourable outcome. Experience with 1000 consecutive cases.

Experience with 1000 cases of aorto-(bi)femoral bypass is presented evaluating factors influencing the overall patency rate and late survival, over a period of 25 years. There were 820 cases with bilateral and 180 with a unilateral bypass. Mortality was 3.

Juxtarenal abdominal aneurysmectomy.

The term juxtarenal abdominal aneurysm is used to describe an aneurysm whose neck is level or adjacent to the origin of one or both renal arteries. Misinterpretation of these appearances could result in the operation being abandoned with the erroneous diagnosis of suprarenal aneurysm. We report 38 patients with a median age of 66 who underwent juxtarenal aneurysm repair, 18 of whom had been diagnosed as having an abdominal aneurysm extending above the renal arteries.

Surgical treatment of renovascular hypertension and respective late results. A twenty years experience.

This paper presents the long term results following operative reconstruction for renovascular hypertension in 115 patients operated upon over a period of 20 years. There were 71 (61.7%) males and 44 (38.

The mid-aortic dysplastic syndrome. Surgical considerations with a 2 to 18 year follow-up and selective histopathological study.

Mild-aortic dysplastic syndrome is usually presented with advanced hypertension in young individuals in association with either weak or absent femoral pulses, due to diffuse narrowing of the aorta in its mid thoraco-abdominal course. There is frequent involvement of visceral arterial branches such as renal and superior mesenteric arteries. Although the disease has been popularised by the appealing name of "abdominal coarctation", the term mid-aortic dysplastic syndrome is more appropriate.

Twenty years experience with abdominal aneurysmectomy. Surgical considerations and analysis of late results.

This report is concerned with presentation of overall experience with abdominal aneurysmectomy, carried out upon 500 consecutive cases during the last 20 years. Emphasis is placed upon substantially improved results of the last decade in terms of survival and late mortality thus, leading to an increased spectrum of operative indications together with justified surgical aggression in the overall management of abdominal aneurysm. Elective surgery was applied upon 385 cases whereas in the remaining 115, emergency undertaking was necessary.