Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome: diagnosis and management, with report of three cases.

Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome is an important albeit infrequent cause of serious disability among young adults and athletes with anomalous anatomic relationships between the popliteal artery and surrounding musculotendinous structures. We report our experience with 3 patients, in whom we used duplex ultrasonography, computed tomography, digital subtraction angiography, and conventional arteriography to diagnose popliteal artery entrapment and to grade the severity of dynamic circulatory insufficiency and arterial damage. We used a posterior surgical approach to give the best view of the anatomic structures compressing the popliteal artery.

Penetrating war injuries of the heart.

Treatment of 12 penetrating heart war wounds were described. Ten wounded (83.3%) died on the spot or during transportation.

Advances in diagnostics and successful repair of proximal posttraumatic superior mesenteric arteriovenous fistula.

Posttraumatic arteriovenous fistulas affecting the superior mesenteric artery and vein are extremely rare. Twenty-four cases of posttraumatic superior mesenteric arteriovenous fistulas (SMAVFs) have been reported. We presented two cases of SMAVFs occurring in a young woman and man secondary to a gunshot and a grenade shrapnel wound in the epigastrium, respectively.

[Traumatic arteriovenous fistula].

Three cases of arteriovenous fistulae and one iatrogenic observed in recent years at the University of Split's Surgical Clinic, and of different site and aetiology, are presented. Their clinical signs, diagnosis and vascular surgical access are discussed.

[Musculotendinous pressure on the arteries of the knee observed in a patient with obstructive entrapment syndrome of the popliteal artery and vein].

The knee artery entrapment is a consequence of congenital anatomical anomaly. As only a relatively small number of cases of this type of disease is quoted in medical literature it would appear to occur in only 0.4 percent of patients having calf claudication and more especially in youthful persons.