Total endovascular repair of a common femoral artery aneurysm with a bifurcated endograft through a single ipsilateral approach.

Aneurysms of the common femoral and profunda femoris arteries are rare. Open surgical repair is the treatment of choice, even though hybrid and total endovascular repair with stent graft placement are reported in the literature. We describe a case of a successful total endovascular repair of a common femoral aneurysm extending to the profunda femoris with a bifurcated abdominal endograft placed in the common femoral artery with distal landing in profunda femoris and superficial femoral artery to preserve flow in both arteries.

Neuropsychological and environmental predictors of reading performance in Brazilian children.

Word-level reading is strongly associated with phonological processing. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of cognitive and environmental variables on word reading performance. Our sample consisted of 185 fourth-grade students.

Amphetamine-induced rapid-onset sensitization: role of novelty, conditioning and behavioral parameters.

Background: Environmental factors may modulate sensitization to the locomotor-activating effects of psychostimulants. In addition, some parameters of locomotor activity seem to be more sensitive to detect cocaine-induced behavioral sensitization. We examined how novelty and conditioning can modulate a previously described rapid-onset type of behavioral sensitization to amphetamine (AMP) in mice, using total, peripheral and central open-field locomotion frequencies as experimental parameters.