Tibioperoneal Occlusive Disease: A Review of below the Knee Endovascular Therapy in Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia.

Background: Tibioperoneal occlusive disease is one of the most difficult disease processes to successfully treat. Previous studies have attempted to address the outcomes of tibial interventions in this patient population; however, the majority of these study cohorts are composed of patients who have undergone concomitant aortoiliac or femoral procedures. Our objective was to present the outcomes of patients treated with endovascular intervention for isolated below-the-knee atherosclerotic disease causing critical limb ischemia (CLI).

Endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in a patient with stenosis of bilateral common iliac artery stents.

Background: The explosion in endovascular interventions for peripheral vascular disease has resulted in procedures being used by a multitude of specialties. Nonvascular surgeons performing these interventions can create scenarios that may make future vascular interventions difficult. In this article, we present a case report illustrating this point.

Midterm results of a novel technique to salvage autogenous dialysis access in aneurysmal arteriovenous fistulas.

Purpose: Over the last decade, K-DOQI guidelines have increasingly emphasized the importance of autogenous arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) for dialysis access. A complication of AVF is aneurysmal dilatation with a subset developing massive diffuse aneurysm. Treatment of massive aneurysmal AVF generally involves either ligation or resection with use of prosthetic interposition.

Hemodialysis-related steal syndrome: predictive factors and response to treatment with the distal revascularization-interval ligation procedure.

Hand ischemia due to steal causes major disability in affected members of the hemodialysis population. Between February 2000 and March 2007, 24 patients aged 37-77 years were identified who developed hand ischemia distal to a hemodialysis access and required a distal revascularization-interval ligation (DRIL) procedure. Of the 24 patients, 22 (92%) were diabetic, 14 (58%) were women, 7 (29%) had prosthetic grafts, and 17 (71%) had fistulas, all originating from the brachial artery.