Claudication due to adventitial cystic degeneration: A differential diagnosis of peripheral artery disease.

Background: Cystic adventitial disease (CAD) is an important and rare non-atherosclerotic cause of intermittent claudication and critical limb ischemia. Since the first case of CAD involving the external iliac artery was described by Atkins and Key in 1947, approximately 300 additional cases have been reported.

Objectives: The aim of this article is to report a rare vascular disorder, predominantly seen in young healthy men with minimal cardiovascular risk factors.

Quadratus Lumborum Block Reduces Postoperative Opioid Consumption and Decreases Persistent Postoperative Pain Severity in Patients Undergoing Both Open and Laparoscopic Nephrectomies-A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: New regional techniques can improve pain management after nephrectomy.

Methods: This study was a randomized controlled trial conducted at two teaching hospitals. Patients undergoing elective open and laparoscopic nephrectomy were eligible to participate in the trial.

[Zatorowość płucna wysokiego ryzyka powikłana nagłym zatrzymaniem krążenia i udarem mózgu - opis przypadku].

The pulmonary embolism is caused by the sudden occlusion or narrowing of the pulmonary artery or its branches through the emboli and it is the third cause of death due to cardiovascular diseases. This disease is characterized by multiple complications, among others, the sudden cardiac arrest or stroke. The success in treatment of pulmonary embolism depends on the early disease diagnosis and a valid therapeutic procedure.

Survey of postoperative pain control in different types of hospitals: a multicenter observational study.

Background: Current pain assessment and treatment does not address every patient's requirements. Although the Polish national guidelines for post-operative pain management have been published, many patients experience severe pain in the postoperative period. The main goal of our study was to assess pain severity among patients from different types of hospitals (primary, secondary, and tertiary centers) after similar types of surgeries.

Superficial temporal artery to middle cerebral artery bypass with interposed saphenous vein graft in patients with atherosclerotic internal carotid artery occlusive disease and impaired cerebral hemodynamics.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of interposed saphenous vein graft (SVG) usage during extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypass surgery in patients with cerebral ischemia and appropriate donor artery absence.

Methods: Since October 2010 till January 2014, 62 EC-IC bypass surgeries were applied in 60 patients. In nineteen patients SVG was used to create low-flow bypasses between superficial temporal artery trunk and cortical segment of middle cerebral artery.

[Stagewise treatment of a patient with multifocal atherosclerosis, limb ischaemia, and surgical infection].

Unlabelled: The authors share herein their experience in successful treatment of a male patient with multifocal atherosclerosis and lower-limb critical ischaemia complicated by erysipelas.

The Aim Of The Work: to show not only efficacy of iloprost (Ilomedin) used as conservative treatment in patients presenting with critical ischaemia and surgical infection in both pre- and postoperative periods in order to save the limb, but also the possibility of postponing reconstructive intervention, improving the patient's quality of life during this period, as well as shortening the duration of the postoperative period, and also to demonstrate both immediate outcomes of endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm and remote results of comprehensive treatment for disseminated multifocal atherosclerosis with severe accompanying pathology.

[Surgical treatment of the internal carotid artery atherosclerotic occlusion].

Internal carotid artery occlusion is the cause of carotid territory transient ischemic attacks or infarction approximately in 15% of patients. Extracranial-lntracranial (EC-IC) Bypass Study and Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study (COSS) failed to show a benefit of EC-IC bypass over medical therapy in patients with symptomatic carotid artery occlusion. Weak sides of COSS were investigators reliance on post hoc analysis, use of specific thresholds in the definition of impaired cerebral hemodynamics and high perioperative morbidity.

[Surgical correction of cerebral blood flow steal syndrome by aortic branches stenosis].

Results of surgical treatment of 119 patients with cerebral/coronary blood flow steal syndrome were analyzed. Vertebro-subclavian steal syndrome was registered in 91.5%.

[Aneurysmal degeneration of the autovenous carotid-subclavian bypass: experience with the treatment, review of literature].

The authors describe an experience gained with successful surgical treatment of a 73-year-old patient with a genuine aneurysm of the autoveinous carotid-subclavian bypass, iwelve years ago the patient was operated on for stenosing atherosclerosis of the coronary and left subclavian arteries (SCA). Aneurysm emergence was consequent on the use of v.saphena magna as a bypass in the given <> and was not associated with appreciable circulatory disorders in the left upper limb.

[Experience in the determination of iodine in the urine by the kinetic cerium arsenite method].

The authors describe the kinetic cerium arsenite method for measuring iodine in the urine using reagents made in Russia. The urine is prepared for analysis by wet calcination with a mixture of chlorous and perchloric acids. The method of synthesizing chlorous acid, preparing reagents, collecting urine, and procedure of analysis are described.

[Effectiveness of diet therapy in patients with ischemic heart disease and a history of myocardial infarction at young age].

To elucidate the effect of dietetics on the onset and course of coronary heart disease (CHD) patients who survived myocardial infarction at young age were investigated. The analysis of clinical and metabolic changes, psycho-vegetative disorders permitted the authors to distinguish two groups of patients: group 1--patients with normal body mass, and group 2--those with excessive body mass who received, respectively, A1 (basic) and Ar (reduced) variants of theanti- arteriosclerotic diet. It was established that the Ar diet produced positive effects on the dynamics of body mass reduction, on the cardiovascular system, on parameters of lipid metabolism, hemostasis and psycho-physiologic parameters of group 2 patients.