Use of a Silver-Impregnated Vascular Graft: Single-Center Experience.

Introduction: Vascular graft infection is a life threatening situation with significant morbidity and mortality. Bacterial graft infection can lead to false aneurysms, bleeding and sepsis. There are a lot of risky situations where grafts can become infected.

Management of Concomitant Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and Intra-abdominal, Retroperitoneal Malignancy.

Background/aim: As the population ages, there are increasing findings of coincidental diseases such as abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and intra-abdominal, retroperitoneal malignancy. The aim of this study was to propose an optimal treatment procedure for these patients.

Patients And Methods: Over a twenty-year-period, surgery was performed on a total of 1,098 patients with AAA and 32 (2.

Late open conversion after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: experience of three-high volume centers.

Background: Accumulated endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) procedures will increase number of patients requiring conversion to open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). In most cases, patients undergo late open surgical conversion (LOSC), many months, or years, after initial EVAR. The aim of this study is to analyze results of LOSC after EVAR in elective and urgent setting, including presenting features, surgical techniques, as well as to review the clinical outcomes and their predictors.

Serious Complications of Intraosseous Access during Infant Resuscitation.

We report on a 2.5-month-old infant with ischemia of the left leg and compartment following intraosseous needle application during resuscitation. Unfortunately, this event led to major limb amputation.

Acute Conditions Caused by Infectious Aortitis.

Unlabelled: Infection of the aorta is rare but potentially very dangerous. Under normal circumstances the aorta is very resistant to infections. Following some afflictions, the infection can pass to the aorta from blood or the surrounding tissues.

Proteomic analysis of the abdominal aortic aneurysm wall.

Purposes: A ruptured AAA (rAAA) is a common cause of death in males over 60 years of age, and the global mortality from rAAA exceeds 80 %. The pathological processes occurring in the wall of the developing AAA are still unclear. The potential pathophysiological mechanisms underlying aortic aneurysms have been examined by many studies using immunohistochemistry and were, therefore, targeted at specific, preselected protein antigens.

Correlation between atmospheric pressure changes and abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture: results of a single-center study.

Purpose: There is much interest in all factors that influence the etiopathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture. Apart from the well-established factors such as arterial hypertension, smoking, age, and genetic predisposition, less common factors that may play a role in the mechanism of the rupture are the subject of much discussion. These include atmospheric conditions, temperature, and atmospheric pressure.

Asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysms show histological signs of progression: a quantitative histochemical analysis.

Objective: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a serious disease due to its covert nature, relatively high prevalence and fatal prognosis in the case of rupture. To obtain new insights into AAA pathogenesis, we examined the relationships between histopathology, multiplex in vitro immunoassay data, diameter and symptomatology.

Methods: In a prospective, non-randomised study, we evaluated samples from 6 normal infrarenal aortae and 65 AAA patients (65 walls, 55 thrombi).

[Morphology and etiopathogenesis of the abdominal aortic aneurysm].

The paper summarizes the latest research on the abdominal aorta aneurysm etiopathogenesis and compares normal aorta morphology with changes in the aortic aneurysm wall. The role of risk factors, especially hemodynamic and genetic, is discussed in detail. Special attention is paid to inflammatory processes including cytokines and matrix degrading proteases that contribute to the development of aneurysm.

Assessment of abdominal aortic aneurysm wall distensibility with electrocardiography-gated computed tomography.

Background: Despite the fact that abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is asymptomatic in the vast majority of cases, sudden rupture with a fatal outcome may still occur. Early planned resection or endovascular aneurysm repair of small AAAs may help prevent a rupture, but both methods are associated with significant mortality. The aim of our study was to determine AAA wall distensibility and to compare it with distensibility of the "healthy" aorta of the same patient.

Bilateral post-traumatic carotid dissection as a result of a strangulation injury.

Carotid trauma is always very serious. Post-traumatic carotid dissection is rather rare and can be diagnosed late. Authors present a case report of post-traumatic bilateral carotid dissection and its spontaneous recovery.