Operative and 1-Year Outcomes of the Custom-Made Fenestrated Anaconda Aortic Stent Graft-A UK Multicenter Study.

Background: Early and 1-year outcomes are presented for fenestrated endovascular aneurysm repair (FEVAR) of complex aortic aneurysmal disease with the custom-made Anaconda fenestrated stent graft in 101 patients.

Methods: Retrospective site-reported data from the first 101 elective cases (2010-2014) from 4 UK centers were studied to evaluate patient demographics, aneurysm morphology, clinical success, and 1-year outcomes in patients undergoing fenestrated aneurysm repair with the custom-made Anaconda device.

Results: 101 fenestrated grafts (median age 76, 85% male) were implanted with a total of 255 fenestrations (196 renal arteries, 48 superior mesenteric artery, and 11 celiac arteries) with 3% mortality, 98.

Arteriovenous fistula formations: key to vascular surgical training.

Purpose: To highlight missed training opportunities in daycase surgery for trainees to acquire competency in vascular anastomosis by performing arteriovenous fistula (AVF) formations.

Methods: Operative Room Management Information System records were reviewed for AVF procedures in daycase and general theatres at a UK Foundation Trust between 2007 and 2012. Data collected included procedure, procedure time (PT), patient length of stay (LOS), readmissions within 30 days of procedure and lead and assistant surgeons involved.

Endovascular management of delayed complete graft thrombosis after endovascular aneurysm repair.

Graft thrombosis rates after endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) of abdominal aortic aneurysms vary widely in published series. When thrombosis does occur, it usually involves a single limb and occurs within 3 months of stent-graft insertion. If the entire endoprosthesis is thrombosed, treatment may be challenging because femoro-femoral crossover graft insertion is not an option and a greater volume of thrombus is present, thus making thrombolysis more difficult.

Endovascular repair of a primary iliac-cecal fistula presenting with gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

We report a case of an arterio-enteric fistula between an external iliac artery aneurysm and otherwise healthy cecum, presenting with torrential hemorrhage per rectum in an 85-year-old patient. Whilst fistulization to the aorta and common iliac arteries has been reported, to our knowledge no previous cases of primary fistulization between an external iliac aneurysm and normal cecum have been. Successful endovascular exclusion of the aneurysm was undertaken with a Wallgraft covered stent and the patient remains well at 1 year.

Autologous thrombin for treatment of pseudoaneurysms.

Femoral pseudoaneurysms arise in up to 2% of patients after femoral cannulation for cardiac catheterisation. We used autologous thrombin for percutaneous obliteration of pseudoaneurysms occurring after catheterisation. We prepared autologous thrombin isolates from blood of ten patients with femoral pseudoaneurysms, and injected this solution into the pseudoaneurysms with duplex imaging guidance.