[Up-date on acute ischemia of the limbs].

The authors report their experience in the treatment of acute ischemia of the limbs during the last year. They underline the importance of a right diagnostic and therapeutic treatment particularly in a little hospital, as reported in an algorytm published recently in the literature. They analyze 11 patients, one of them with an embolism of the arm, with a different degree of ischemia.

[Acute intestinal ischemia. Review of the literature and personal experience].

The authors report the experience of their surgical department in the diagnosis and treatment of acute arterial mesenteric ischaemia. Their results are similar to those of the literature. Stress is laid on early diagnosis and interest of mesenteric angiography, laparoscopy and color flow ultrasound.

[Carotid vessels studied by Doppler color echography and digital angiography. Results of meta analysis].

Twenty patients were studied by color Doppler flow imaging and digital angiography. According to the literature the results support necessity of color flow in the study of the patients with plaque. The authors emphasize the role of angiography only in the surgical patients for the anatomic evaluation of the carotid territory.