Endovascular Treatment of Acute Aortic Occlusion with Critical Limb Ischemia using an AngioJet Device.

Background: Acute aortic occlusion is an uncommon vascular emergency.

Report: We report an endovascular procedure in a patient with acute aortic occlusion causing critical limb ischemia. Following thrombus debulking with AngioJet system, aortoiliac patency was achieved with bilateral iliac artery stent placement creating new aortic bifurcation.

Electron Microscopic Comparison of Radial Artery Grafts in Non-Diabetic and Diabetic Coronary Bypass Patients.

Objective: We compared electron microscopic histologic changes of the radial artery grafts in non-diabetic and diabetic patients.

Methods: Thirty-six patients were divided into three groups according to their diabetic status (Group I had no diabetes mellitus [DM], Group II had type two DM and HbA1c levels were <7.5%, and Group III had type 2 DM but HbA1c levels were >7.

Thoracic Grafts May Be an Alternative in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm with Hostile Neck Anatomy.

In cases with a proximal aneurysm neck diameter of higher than 28 mm, standard endovascular aneurysm repair is considered inappropriate. In the present study, we report a successful endovascular treatment using overlapped thoracic and abdominal grafts technique in a patient whose infrarenal aneurysm neck diameter is 38.1 mm.