Results of endovascular treatments of Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus C or D aortoiliac occlusive disease involving the aortic bifurcation.

Objectives: The current study aims to report midterm results of patients treated with endovascular intervention, kissing stent, or covered endovascular reconstruction of the aortic bifurcation, for Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus C or D aortoiliac occlusive disease involving the aortic bifurcation.

Methods: Eighteen patients who have intermittent claudication or chronic limb threatening ischemia with Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus C or D aortoiliac occlusive disease involving the aortic bifurcation enrolled to the study between January 2018 and January 2021. Kissing stents, Advanta V12 (Atrium, Getinge Group), were used in 13 patients, and the covered endovascular reconstruction of the aortic bifurcation technique was used in 4 patients to reconstruct the aortic bifurcation.

Systemic inflammatory response during cardiopulmonary bypass: Axial flow versus radial flow oxygenators.

Background: The objective of this study was to investigate the inflammatory effects of different oxygenator flow pattern types in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass.

Methods: We designed this randomized, single-blind, prospective study of patients with coronary artery disease. We compared the systemic inflammatory effects of oxygenators with two types of flow: axial flow and radial flow.

Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of cell saver usage in the repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections.

Introduction: A substantial amount of blood loss occurs during the open repair of aortic aneurysms or dissections. The aim of the present study is to determine the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of cell saver devices in blood conservation during the open repair of thoracic aortic pathologies.

Methods: The present study prospectively collected the data pertaining to 25 patients who underwent surgical management of thoracic aortic aneurysms or dissections using a cell saver (Group 1,  = 25).

Bizarre Parosteal Osteochondromatous Proliferation (Nora's Lesion) in the Medial Sesamoid of the First Toe.

Bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation, or Nora's lesion, is a unique bony lesion that generally originates from the small bones of the hands and feet in young adults. We report a case of a bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation originating from the medial sesamoid of the first toe that was managed surgically by en bloc excision. At 5-year follow-up, there was no evidence of recurrence.

Three Cases of Large-Diameter True Brachial and Axillary Artery Aneurysm and a Review of the Literature.

Aneurysms of the upper extremity mostly originate from trauma, mycotic lesions, thoracic outlet syndrome, previous arteriovenous fistulae, and atherosclerosis. True aneurysms of the brachial and axillary artery are encountered rarely. They can be diagnosed by simple physical examination as a pulsatile mass.