Effectiveness of the Combined Treatment of Functional Electrical Stimulation and Deambulation in Diabetic Arteriopathy.

Objective: To determine whether functional electrical stimulation (FES) is able to improve ischemic pain and quality of life of patients with diabetic arteriopathy (DA) in grade-IIa Leriche-Le Fontaine.

Material And Methods: This is a single-blinded, randomized, prospective cohort study. We included patients diagnosed with grade-IIa Leriche-Le Fontaine peripheral arterial disease in both lower extremities with and without diabetes mellitus (DM).

Endovascular Repair of a Descending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm With an Aberrant Left Subclavian Artery Associated With an Infrarenal Aortic Aneurysm.

Aneurysms involving a right-sided descending thoracic aorta with an aberrant origin of the left subclavian artery are rare. We describe the successful surgical repair of this vascular anomaly by the combined use of a left carotid to subclavian artery bypass followed by endovascular stent graft placement to exclude the aortic aneurysm. We also review the literature associated with this particular anatomic presentation.

Influence of aspirin therapy in the ulcer associated with chronic venous insufficiency.

Background: To determine the effect of aspirin on ulcer healing rate in patients with chronic venous insufficiency, and to establish prognostic factors that influence ulcer evolution.

Methods: Between 2001 and 2005, 78 patients with ulcerated lesions of diameter >2 cm and associated with chronic venous insufficiency were evaluated in our hospital. Of these, 51 patients (22 men, 29 women) with mean age of 60 years (range: 36-86) were included in a prospective randomized trial with a parallel control group.