Team Approach: Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcer.

At any point in time, 3% to 4% of the 29.1 million diabetic patients in the United States (9.3% of the population) will have a foot ulcer.

Acute pancreatitis after percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy: case report and review of the literature.

Purpose: We describe a case of severe acute pancreatitis after percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy (PMT) and review the literature for the occurrence of this complication.

Materials And Methods: A 53-year-old man with a history of bilateral external iliac artery stent placement sought care for acute onset of lifestyle-limiting left claudication. Angiography confirmed left external iliac stent occlusion, and PMT with the AngioJet Xpeedior catheter (Possis Medical, Minneapolis MN) was performed.

Right renal vein aneurysm discovered incidentally during laparoscopic nephrectomy.

Renal vein aneurysms are exceedingly rare. There are only 8 reported cases in the literature. We present the first case of a renal vein aneurysm discovered incidentally during a laparoscopic radical nephrectomy and discuss its intraoperative management.

Endovascular grafts for treatment of traumatic injury to the aortic arch and great vessels.

Background: Treatment of traumatic vascular injury using endovascular techniques has evolved as endovascular capabilities have advanced over the past several decades. Several endovascular techniques have been employed to address the challenges of traumatic arterial injury, including coil embolization and the use of stents, which may be either bare metal or covered with graft material. Compared with traditional surgical repair, endovascular stent grafting for the repair of traumatic arterial injury offers the advantage of decreased morbidity because a remote access site may be used, avoiding surgical dissection and lengthy operating times.

Abdominal compartment syndrome in the severely burned patient.

Scant data exist regarding patient outcome after treatment of abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) with decompressive laparotomy. This work reviews the outcome of 25 burn patients at a single institution who underwent decompressive laparotomy for treatment of ACS in the periresuscitation period. A computerized burn registry and directed chart review were used for data collection and analysis in this retrospective review.