[Infection of the vascular prosthesis. The diagnostic, preventive and treatment protocols: preliminary results].

A number of strategies for the management of vascular graft infections are described in literature. Nevertheless, this serious compliance is still burdened with high rates of morbidity and mortality. At the present the principal efforts are therefore directed towards prevention and early diagnosis.

[Posttraumatic pseudoaneurysms of the anterior tibial artery: a review of the literature and a clinical case report].

The authors after a review of the literature report a case of anterior tibial artery false aneurysm in a seventeen year old male, due to traumatic sprained ankle during a basketball match. Surgical techniques used in repairing the lesion as well as microsurgical technique for the direct suture of the artery, which allowed to resolve the problem, are discussed.

[Juvenile vascular pathology due to homocystinuria. A clinical case report].

The authors report a case of juvenile vasculopathy in a homocystinuria patient. They point out that thromboembolism may be the only symptomatic expression of this genetically determined metabolic disease. Diagnostic approach and surgical therapy of the vascular lesions as well as medical therapy to prevent further complications are analysed.

[Revascularization of distal arteries of the leg: critical considerations on more than 2000 cases reported in the literature].

The Authors review the results of more than 2000 cases of lower extremity revascularization, treated from 1969 to 1991 and reported in the literature. They evaluate indications, contraindications and results at 12 and 24 months from operation performed with saphenous vein "in situ" and reversed. Finally they stress the greater reliability of by-passes performed with "in situ" saphenous vein graft.