Specific Features of Patients Under 40 Years Old With Small-to-Medium-Sized Arterial Deterioration.

Background: Arterial deterioration is mostly caused by atherosclerosis, which progresses with age. However, we have observed serious backgrounds or etiologies in younger patients with non-atherosclerotic diseases and deterioration of small-to-medium-sized arterial lesions. Therefore, we aimed to identify the specific features of patients aged <40 years with deterioration of small-to-medium-sized arteries.

Efficient Suppression of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Expansion in Rats through Systemic Administration of Statin-Loaded Nanomedicine.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a life-threatening disease. However, no systemically injectable drug has been approved for AAA treatment due to low bioavailability. Polymeric micelles are nanomedicines that have the potential to improve therapeutic efficacy by selectively delivering drugs into disease sites, and research has mainly focused on cancer treatments.

[Technique of Arterial Anastomosis].

The important point in vascular anastomosis is anastomosis with a secure suture and prevention of thrombosis. Uncertainty in sutures can cause bleeding from the anastomotic site and post operative pseudoaneurysm formation. In addition, the failure of the antithrombotic function causes early occlusion of the anastomotic site due to thrombus formation, causing intimal thickening and causing stenosis of the anastomotic site.

[Purtscher's retinopathy following blunt chest compression].

Following chest or abdominal injury, acute blurring of vision occurs without direct eye injury. This disease is known as Purtscher's retinopathy. A 74-year-old man suffered blunt chest injury by air bag inflation at traffic accident.