Chronic ischemic gastritis: case report of a difficult diagnosis and review of the literature.

Chronic ischemic gastritis is an unusual entity that is rarely distinguished from other forms of intestinal ischemia. On the basis of a case encountered and a subsequent review of the literature, the main features of this rare condition are described here. A better understanding and awareness of the disease should improve the diagnosis and ultimately also the prognosis.

Endovascular stent-graft placement in the descending aorta through an ascending aorto-bifemoral bypass.

Purpose: To report a combined conventional and endovascular strategy to treat a descending aorta anastomotic aneurysm.

Case Report: A 60-year-old man with previous obliteration of the infra renal aorta suffered from bilateral lower limb acute ischemia. Lower limb vascularization was provided by a previous thoraco-bifemoral bypass.

[Results of surgical treatment for renal artery dysplasia].

Purposes: To retrospectively assess functional results of surgical treatment for renal artery dysplasia.

Patients And Method: From January 1992 to December 2001, 11 symptomatic patients including 9 women (mean age 47 years, range 23-67), underwent surgery for renal artery dysplasia. Three patients presented with normalized hypertension, three others presented with isolated systolic hypertension, and the five remaining presented with grade II or III hypertension.

[Endovascular treatment for obstructive disease of the aortoiliac bifurcation by the kissing stent technique].

Purpose: To evaluate short and medium-term results of endovascular repair of the aortoiliac bifurcation for occlusive disease by the kissing stent technique.

Method: Twenty patients were included in this retrospective study between May 1999 and November 2002 (13 men, mean age 58 years, range 42-86). Fifteen were treated for bilateral common iliac artery stenosis (75%), four for unilateral common iliac artery occlusion with or without controlateral stenosis (20%), and one for bilateral common iliac artery occlusion (5%).

Transcutaneous oxygen pressure measurements (tcpO2) at ankle during exercise in arterial claudication.

Aim: Although a time consuming technique, tcpO2 provides complementary information as compared to other tests. Simultaneous recording of systemic and peripheral oxygen pressure changes with exercise could be interesting to confirm that local hypoxemia is of arterial origin, but accuracy versus gold standard arteriography and objectively determined cut-off points to be used in arterial claudication at the ankle are not reported.

Experimental Design: retrospective plus prospective study.