[Endovascular methods of treatment for acute thromboses of lower limb arteries].

The article exemplifies that a group of patients presenting with acute thrombosis of lower- limb arteries appears to belong to the severest patient cohort, whose treatment remains a difficult task for a vascular surgeon, since the solution of this problem cannot be limited to thrombectomy alone, and in the overwhelming majority of cases should be completed by removing the cause of thrombogenesis, to put it more precisely, by a reconstructive vascular operation, for instance, thromboendarterectomy (bypass grafting, prosthetic repair reconstruction), or by an endovascular procedure. All this taken into consideration compels the investigators to search for safer, minimally invasive and at the same time efficient methods of treatment. Endovascular methods aimed at restoration of the arterial lumen meet these requirements to a considerable degree.

Carboxyangiography: a new type of opacification in angiographic practice--first clinical experience.

The study was undertaken to investigate a possibility of clinical application of medical-purpose CO2 as an alternative radiopaque agent (RA) for visualization of major arteries and veins. During the period from April 2009 to June 2010, a total of fifty 38-to-72-year-old patients (mean age 58 years) underwent angiographic examinations wherein medical-purpose CO2 was employed as a radiopaque agent. We performed 39 aorto-arteriographies, 10 portographies, and one mesentericography.

[Rheolytic catheter-assisted thrombectomy in a gigantic floating thrombus].

Thrombosis of deep veins of the lower extremities is a serious and frequently occurring disease (with the incidence rate of 160 newly onset cases per 100,000 people annually). A great number of complications are known to develop in case of the ileofemoral thrombosis and a floating pattern of the proximal portion of the thrombus, especially if extending to the vena cava inferior. Appropriate treatment of thromboses of the vena cava inferior should consist in averting dissemination of thrombosis in the proximal direction, preventing pulmonary-artery thromboembolism (PATE), and restoring the patency of the vena cava inferior in order to eliminate the risk of post-thrombotic disease.