Clinical predictors of major adverse cardiovascular events during long-term follow-up after carotid endarterectomy.

Background: Those patients who undergo a carotid endarterectomy (CEA) will present a higher cardiovascular risk during follow-up than the general population. The objective of this study was to determine the prognostic factors and validate the accuracy of 3 cardiovascular risk scores as predictors of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) during long-term follow-up after CEA.

Methods: Observational retrospective follow-up study with 416 CEAs conducted consecutively in 385 patients from 1994 to 2011.

Anatomopathological and immunohistochemical study of explanted cryopreserved arteries.

Background: The aim of the study was to analyze the mechanism of deterioration of implanted arteries.

Methods: Eleven patients were included. Samples of vascular segments obtained from multiorgan donors and samples of the same vascular segments after explantation in the recipient were analyzed.

Urgent endovascular treatment of a ruptured tibioperoneal pseudoaneurysm in Behçet's disease.

Background: Behçet's disease is an autoimmune, systemic vasculitis disease that is characterized by oral aphthous and genital ulcerations and ocular lesions. Vascular manifestations in the form of aneurysms are the main predictors of mortality and morbidity in such cases. Normally, these aneurysms are located in the pulmonary arteries, the aorta, carotid, subclavia, and the femoropopliteal sector.

[Leiomyosarcoma of the inferior vena cava. Clinical report].

A leiomyosarcoma of the inferior vena cava is reported in a 52 year old female, located in the para-renal segment of the vena cava. The tumor was resected and the vena cava was replaced by a 20 mm PTFE anelar prosthesis, with reimplantation of the right renal vein. The left renal vein was ligated.