A staged hybrid approach to an aberrant right subclavian artery with symptomatic Kommerell's diverticulum.

Aberrant right subclavian is a rare anomaly presenting in 0.3-3.0% of the population.

Predictive factors for publication of abstracts at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress.

Background: A key metric of the research quality of medical conferences is the publication rate of abstracts. The study objective was to determine the publication rate of abstracts presented at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress (RACS ASC) and to examine for any predictive factors associated with publication.

Methods: Abstracts presented at the RACS ASC from 2011 to 2013 were analysed.

First-in-man experience of self-expanding nitinol stents combined with drug-coated balloon in the treatment of femoropopliteal occlusive disease.

Purpose The present study aimed to determine the safety and efficacy of a drug-coated balloon inflated within a thin-strut self-expanding bare-metal stent in patients with severe and complex femoropopliteal occlusive disease. Methods This prospective study used the Pulsar-self-expanding stent and Passeo-18 Lux drug-coated balloon in patients with severe and complex femoropopliteal occlusive disease. The primary endpoint was the 12-month primary patency, and the secondary endpoints included 24-month primary patency, assisted primary patency, secondary patency, and clinically associated target lesion revascularisation.

Anaemia in school-aged children in an Australian Indigenous community.

Objective: Indigenous Australians have poorer health outcomes compared to the non-Indigenous population. Malnutrition, and subsequently iron-deficiency anaemia, impairs childhood development. The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of anaemia in school-aged children of an Australian Indigenous community and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment.

Tweeting the meeting: A comparative analysis of an Australian emergency medicine conference over four years.

Objective: Social media allows user-generated content and dialog between users and has also entered into the domain of healthcare. The purpose of this study was to compare the use of Twitter at the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting (ACEM ASM) from 2011 to 2014 and analyze its ability to spread emergency medicine education.

Materials And Methods: Retrospectively, TweetReach was utilized to analyze relevant tweets.

Subclavian artery injury secondary to clavicular plate fixation: a novel operative approach.

We present the case of a 32-year-old male with a delayed symptomatic left subclavian artery pseudoaneurysm secondary to protruding screws from prior perpendicular clavicular plate fixations. The pseudoaneurysm development and our operative approach are unique to the few similar cases available in the literature. The patient presented with a progressive pulsatile mass behind his left clavicle associated with paraesthesia.

Stent graft infection secondary to appendicitis: an unusual complication of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

We present a case of a 73-year-old gentleman with an aortic endograft infection post endovascular abdominal aneurysm repair (EVAR), from whence erosion has come in from an acutely inflamed appendix. To our best understanding, there is no similar case published in the literature. Intra-operatively, there was obvious inflammation and oedema over the retroperitoneal tissue, with frank pus and thrombotic material projecting from the aorta.