Assessment of Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair Using Relay Proximal Scallop: Results of a French Prospective Multicentre Study.

Objective: A proximal scallop design allows aortic arch repair without complex endovascular manipulation in the aortic arch. The aim was to assess the safety and efficacy at one year of the Relay proximal scallop stent graft.

Methods: A prospective multicentre study evaluated consecutive patients treated with the Relay proximal scallop stent graft in 10 French aortic centres.

Benefits of a 14-year surgical site infections active surveillance programme in a French teaching hospital.

Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the second most common healthcare-associated infection. Active SSI surveillance can help inform preventative measures and assess the impact of these measures.

Aim: We aimed to describe the evolution in trends over 14 years of prospective active SSI surveillance and implementations of SSI prevention measures in a French Teaching Hospital.

Aortic Bifurcation Reconstruction after a Plane Crash.

We report the case of a 26-year-old woman who presented to the emergency room after an airplane crash. The assessment of the lesions revealed a dissection of the left common iliac artery, which was treated by reimplantation of the left common iliac artery in the right common iliac artery.

First-in-human use of a marine oxygen carrier (M101) for organ preservation: A safety and proof-of-principle study.

The medical device M101 is an extracellular hemoglobin featuring high oxygen-carrying capabilities. Preclinical studies demonstrated its safety as an additive to organ preservation solutions and its beneficial effect on ischemia/reperfusion injuries. OXYgen carrier for Organ Preservation (OXYOP) is a multicenter open-label study evaluating for the first time the safety of M101 added (1 g/L) to the preservation solution of one of two kidneys from the same donor.

[Peripheral arterial disease: Treatment].

Medical management of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) patients is aimed at limb symptom relief and reducing systemic major adverse events risk. For the first purpose: exercise therapy is recommended in case of claudication; multidisciplinary evaluation for surgical options is mandatory in case of critical limb ischaemia. Reducing cardiac and stroke risk can be achieved through: statin prescription in most of the cases; antiplatelet agents in symptomatic PAD patients; cardio-vascular risk factors control.

Outcomes after surgery for acute type A aortic dissection in "non-Marfan syndrome" patients with long life expectancy: A 24-year follow-up.

Background: Long-term survival and risk of reoperation in "non-Marfan syndrome" patients with a long life expectancy who undergo emergency surgery for acute type A aortic dissection (aTAAD) are not well known.

Aim: To analyse survival, risk of reoperation and quality of life in this population.

Methods: From 1990 to 2010, all patients aged≤50 years and not affected by Marfan syndrome, who underwent emergency surgery for aTAAD at two institutions, were included in this analysis.

Uterus retrieval process from brain dead donors.

Objective: To describe the feasibility of human uterus retrieval after donation after brain death.

Design: Single-center, prospective study.

Setting: University hospital.

Cardiac tamponade related to a coronary injury by a pericardial calcification: an unusual complication.

Background: Cardiac tamponade is a rare but severe complication of pericardial effusion with a poor prognosis. Prompt diagnosis using transthoracic echocardiography allows guiding initial therapeutic management. Although etiologies are numerous, cardiac tamponade is more often due to a hemopericardium.

Preoperative hepatic insufficiency and type III endoleak: a confirmed potential fatal association following endovascular treatment.

Consumptive coagulopathy is known to occur in patients with aneurysm, especially in the thoracic localization. Compared to open chest surgery, the endovascular treatment leaves in place a large thrombosed aneurysmal sac, which might induce and/or exacerbate the coagulopathy. Although exceptional, some recent reports have raised the potential disastrous issue related to this complication.

[Cryopreserved amniotic membranes use in resistant vascular ulcers].

Background And Objective: Amniotic membranes are used with success in ophthalmology to treat corneal wounds and ulcers. In this pilot study, we attempt to assess the tolerance of amniotic membranes in the management of resistant venous and/or arterial vascular ulcers.

Material And Methods: We prospectively included 8 patients, 7 males and 1 female, mean age 69.

Non-AT(1)-receptor-mediated protective effect of angiotensin against acute ischaemic stroke in the gerbil.

Previous studies have shown that angiotensin II (Ang II), by mediating rapid recruitment of collateral circulation, has a protective effect in the setting of acute ischaemia. In an experimental model of acute cerebral ischaemia in the gerbil, Fernandez et al. have reported that the mechanism of the protective effect of Ang 11 is blood pressure (BP)-independent, and that the AT1-receptor antagonist, losartan, but not the ACE inhibitor (ACE-I),enalapril, decreases mortality following unilateral carotid artery ligation.

Is the morning peak of acute myocardial infarction's onset due to sleep-related breathing disorders? A prospective study.

Many studies have shown that the risk of experiencing a myocardial infarction (MI) is increased during the first hours of the morning. Sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) is associated with an enhanced adrenergic activity, prolonged a few hours after awakening. We aimed at assessing whether sleep breathing disorders could be a culprit for the morning excess rate of MI.

[French translation and validation of the Edinburgh Questionnaire for the diagnosis of intermittent claudication].

Obliterative arterial disease of the lower limbs is diagnosed by simple, reproducible, sensitive and non-invasive methods. One of these, a questionnaire for the diagnosis on intermittent limping, is a method of choice. Until recent years, the only validated questionnaire was the one proposed by the World Health Organisation.