[Vascularsurgical Long-term Outcome - Comparison of Orthotopic and Extraanatomic Reconstructions in Unilateral Occlusions of Iliac Artery over 10 Years].

In PAOD, several vascular regions are usually affected, the pelvic axis in 35% of cases. Interventional-radiological/endovascular or hybrid interventions have been established for recanalization, so that bypass procedures are increasingly taking a back seat, but are not losing their importance.To study unilateral iliac artery occlusions (inclusion criterion) that were repaired either by implantation of an orthotopic or extraanatomic bypass (oBP/eaBP).

[Outpatient and "Admission-Substituting" Interventions in Vascular Surgery - What is Feasible and Where are the Limits? Previous and New Legal Requirements and their Implementation in Practice].

Introduction: In vascular surgery too, more services and procedures will have to be shifted from the previous inpatient to the outpatient sector in the future. Therefore, the previous and new legal requirements as well as their implementation in vascular surgery will be explained and evaluated.

Material And Methods: Professional policy analysis from a perspective of medical vascular surgery.

[Suture Aneurysms - Aetiopathogenesis, Symptomatology, Diagnostic Testing, Treatment, Outcome and Influencing Factors after Open Vascular Surgical and Image-guided Interventional Reconstruction].

Aim: To illustrate incidence, aetiopathogenesis, symptomatology, diagnostic testing, peri-interventional/-surgical management and outcome of SA based on selective references from the scientific medical literature and our own clinical experiences in diagnostic and therapeutic care.

Methods: Narrative overview RESULTS: CONCLUSION: SA as relevant quantity of care has become a substantial part of basic vascular surgical or image-guided radiology treatment. The vascular surgeon or radiologist (for image-guided interventions) needs to be adequately focused on the demanding diagnostic and therapeutic management, demanding her/his complete competence and expertise.

Editor's Choice - Relevance of Infarct Size, Timing of Surgery, and Peri-operative Management for Non-ischaemic Cerebral Complications After Carotid Endarterectomy.

Objective: To assess the incidence of post-operative non-ischaemic cerebral complications as a pivotal outcome parameter with respect to size of cerebral infarction, timing of surgery, and peri-operative management in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis who underwent carotid endarterectomy (CEA).

Methods: Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected single centre CEA registry data. Consecutive patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis were subjected to standard patch endarterectomy.

Vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) for postoperative secondary peritonitis: Effect on bacterial load as well as local and systemic cytokine response (initial results).

Background: It is still a matter of debate what the best management of peritonitis is following eliminating the source of infection. This particularly concerns the amplitude of local and systemic inflammatory response as well as bacterial clearence at the infectious site.

Aim: To investigate the effects of vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) vs.