Compressive pancreaticoduodenal artery aneurysm associated with celiac artery stenosis.

Peripancreatic artery aneurysms are a rare condition, representing <2% of all splanchnic artery aneurysms, and have been significantly related to celiac axis stenosis. While they are most often asymptomatic, those aneurysms have a strong tendency to rupture (52% rupture rate at the initial presentation) and, in this case, the outcome is often dramatic. Given that reports of this disease are rare, appropriate guidelines are difficult to formulate and different treatment strategies have been proposed.

Is it mandatory to carry out completion arteriography after carotid endarterectomy with patch angioplasty?

Background: This study compares the neurologic evolution and number of restenoses between 2 groups of patients who underwent internal carotid endarterectomy with patch angioplasty (CEP): one group with systematic intraoperative completion arteriography (CA) and another group without.

Methods: This monocentric retrospective study was performed from January 2000 to December 2008 on 559 consecutive CEPs; 179 were controlled with CA and 380 were not. Surgery was chosen for patients with greater than 50% symptomatic or greater than 60% asymptomatic stenosis (North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial criteria).

Ischemic gastritis: a rare but lethal consequence of celiac territory ischemic syndrome.

Aim: Ischemic gastritis is poorly known by physicians and is often fatal if not correctly diagnosed. Here, we report on the clinical, endoscopic and imaging features and treatment outcomes for five ischemic gastritis patients.

Methods: This was a retrospective, single-centre study of patients treated for ischemic gastritis between January 2009 and April 2012.

Endovascular treatment of external iliac artery stenoses for claudication with systematic stenting.

The results of the endovascular treatment of external iliac artery lesions in patients with claudication are not well known. In the literature, very often, the studied populations are not homogenous (people with claudication and with acute ischemia) and the external iliac artery is not differentiated from the primary iliac artery. Moreover, systematic stenting is still debated.

Antibiotic resistance and adherence properties of Hafnia alvei clinical isolates: a 19-month study in the hospital of Orléans, France.

We studied the epidemiology of antibiotic resistance and adherence properties among all Hafnia alvei clinical isolates collected from August 2003 to February 2005 from patients hospitalized in the hospital of Orléans, France. The isolates were typed by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), screened for antibiotic resistance and bacterial adherence to A549 respiratory and T24 bladder cells. Six intestinal, 3 respiratory, and 8 isolates from different body sites were collected.