[Endovascular treatment of acute iliofemoral deep venous thrombosis - our results with catheter-directed thrombolysis and AngioJet].

Introduction: Most of the patients with iliofemoral thrombosis treated with anticoagulants only are affected with postthrombotic syndrome (PTS) that worsens the patients' quality of life. In the acute phase of proximal deep venous thrombosis (DVT) catheter-directed (CDT) and pharmacomechanical thrombolysis may be a reasonable alternative therapeutic method. Our aim was to summarize our results using these methods.

Generalized alterations in the biomechanical properties of large veins in non-thrombotic thrombophilic young patients.

Aim: In young, post-thrombotic patients, venous distensibility is decreased not only in the affected lower limb, but also in the contralateral limb and in the jugular vein when compared to age-matched control subjects. In the present study, we investigated venous wall mechanical properties in young, asymptomatic thrombophilic patients.

Methods: Eleven young (24+/-0.

Fibrinolysis in a lipid environment: modulation through release of free fatty acids.

Background: Thrombolysis is conventionally regarded as dissolution of the fibrin matrix of thrombi by plasmin, but the structure of clots in vivo includes additional constituents (proteins, phospholipids) that modulate their solubilization.

Objective: We examined the presence of free fatty acids in thrombi and their effects on distinct stages of fibrinolysis (plasminogen activation, plasmin activity).

Methods And Results: Using the fluorescent probe acrylodated intestinal fatty acid-binding protein, variable quantities (up to millimolar concentrations) of free fatty acids were demonstrated in surgically removed human thrombi.

Generalized changes in venous distensibility in postthrombotic patients.

Introduction: In situ biomechanical properties of peripheral large veins were compared between asymptomatic young patients who had previously unilateral femoro-popliteal deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and age-matched, healthy controls; the aim of this study was to assess local or generalized alterations of venous wall biomechanics in postthrombotic patients.

Patients And Methods: Inner diameters of both common femoral veins, right axillary vein, and right internal jugular veins were measured in two directions by ultrasonography. Venous pressure was altered by posture changes (standing and lying) and by application of graded and controlled Valsalva.

Thrombophilia and venous thromboembolism. International consensus statement. Guidelines according to scientific evidence.

Thrombophilia is the term now used to describe predisposition to increased risk of venous and occasionally arterial thromboembolism due to hematological abnormalities. It can be a multifactorial disorder where congenital defects of anticoagulant or procoagulant factors may be combined with acquired hematological abnormalities. It should be considered in patients with a documented unexplained thrombotic episode or a positive family history.

The world wide web and the laboratory: a comparison using face recognition.

In recent years, a growing number of psychological researchers have turned to the World Wide Web (WWW) as a resource to access participants in experimental studies. While there are benefits to this approach in conducting psychological research (e.g.

[Thrombolytic therapy as pretreatment before vascular operations and radiologic interventions].

The authors describe their 60 cases of thrombolysis with steptokinase (SK). Thrombolysis was required in 55 patients because of arterial, while in 5 patients because of venous side thrombosis. The 73% of the patients with arterial occlusion where thrombolysis was applied belonged Fountain stage IV, while 27% to Fountain stage III.

[Anatomical and extra-anatomical reconstructions in aorto-iliac occlusive diseases].

Purpose: In the case of the aorto-iliac arteries occlusion there are two different operative reconstructive possibilities. As an anatomical reconstruction the open desobliteration of the iliaca arteries, the retrograde half-closed desobliteration or the aorto/ilio-femoral bypasses can be mentioned. As an extraanatomical solution ilio/femoro-femoral crossover bypass can be implanted.

[Dyslipoproteinemia and chronic kidney failure].

Lipoprotein abnormalities are a regular part of metabolic changes associated with chronic renal failure. The character of dyslipoproteinaemia changes with the severity of disorders of renal functions, from initial deviations in the composition and distribution of circulating lipoprotein particles (a decline of glomerular filtration to 0.7-0.