[A Case of Solitary Liver Metastasis of Low-Grade Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma 31 Years after Resection of Primary Lesion].

A 73-year-old woman was referred to our hospital after a liver tumor was discovered during an abdominal ultrasonography. Thirty-one years ago, she underwent a total hysterectomy for uterine myoma and was diagnosed with a leiomyoma. Twenty years ago, she underwent a bilateral oophorectomy for an ovarian tumor and was diagnosed with a luteinized theca cell tumor accompanied by sclerosing peritonitis.

Prediction of Postoperative Cerebral Infarction after Cardiovascular Surgery Using Quantitative Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow with Brain Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography.

Prediction of postoperative cerebral infarction after cardiovascular surgery is difficult. The present study investigated whether quantitative evaluation of preoperative cerebral blood flow used in the Japanese EC-IC Bypass Trial (JET) study is useful for the prediction of postoperative cerebral infarction after cardiovascular surgery. First, patients were divided into two groups based on preoperative cerebral blood flow.

Early-phase wound healing and long-term outcomes of a selective endovascular-first approach for treating Rutherford 5 critical limb ischemia with infrainguinal lesions.

Purpose: To evaluate the validity of a selective endovascular-first approach for Rutherford 5 critical limb ischemia (CLI).

Methods: We analyzed, retrospectively, 51 limbs in 46 patients treated for Rutherford 5 CLI with infrainguinal lesions between 2010 and 2012. Endovascular therapy (EVT) and open surgical revascularization (OSR) were performed initially in 28 and 23 limbs, respectively.

Is Endovascular Aneurysm Repair a Relative Contraindication for Patients with Preoperative Renal Dysfunction?

Unlabelled: Whether endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a relative contraindication in patients with preoperative renal dysfunction (Pre-RD), remains controversial because the contrast medium may induce nephrotoxicity. In this study 1658 patients were treated at ten Japanese medical centers between January 2005 and March 2011 (Open surgery (OS) vs. EVAR: n = 1270 vs.

Early outcomes of open abdominal repair versus endovascular repair for abdominal aortic aneurysm: report from national hospital organization network study in Japan.

Objective: Early outcomes of open abdominal repair (OS) versus endovascular repair (EVAR) for abdominal aortic aneurysm were retrospectively analyzed, after commercialized devices for EVAR had become available in Japan.

Patients And Methods: A total of 781 consecutive patients (OS, n = 522; EVAR, n = 259) were treated at ten medical centers between January 2008 and September 2010. The OS group comprised patients with preoperative shock (SOS, n = 34) and without shock (NOS, n = 488).

Thoracic endovascular aortic repair with homemade stent grafts: early and mid-term outcomes.

Purpose: We reviewed our experience with homemade stent grafts in the repair of a variety of thoracic aortic lesions. The objective of this study was to assess the early and mid-term outcomes of this therapy.

Methods: From 1999 to 2007, homemade stent grafts were inserted in 88 patients with an atherosclerotic aneurysm, dissection, pseudoaneurysm, trauma, or rupture in the thoracic aorta.

Clinical outcome of perioperative nonpermanent vena cava filter placement in patients with deep venous thrombosis or blood stasis of the vein.

Purpose: To evaluate the recent clinical experience with nonpermanent inferior vena cava (IVC) filter placement preoperatively, especially with regard to patients who had deep venous thrombosis (DVT) due to compression by a tumor or an aneurysm.

Methods: Preoperative prophylactic IVC filter placement was performed between October 2002 and March 2008 in 48 of 83 patients who underwent IVC filter placement. IVC filter placement was performed preoperatively in 35 of the 48 patients due to DVT located distally in an iliac vein or due to IVC compression by a tumor or aneurysm.