A prospective, multicentre study to assess frailty in elderly patients with leg ulcers (GERAS study).

Background: Although leg ulcers are a burdensome disease most common in those aged 65 years and older, frailty in this population has not yet been well established.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to prospectively explore and compare the presence of frailty in elderly patients with chronic leg or foot ulcers by applying different validated frailty screening methods in three healthcare settings and to assess the feasibility of frailty screening.

Methods: We compared frailty of leg ulcer patients referred to an academic hospital with a non-academic hospital, leg ulcer patients receiving (primary) homecare, and a dermato-oncology patient population (control group).

Editor's Choice - Nationwide Analysis of Patients Undergoing Iliac Artery Aneurysm Repair in the Netherlands.

Objective: The new 2019 guideline of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) recommends consideration for elective iliac artery aneurysm (eIAA) repair when the iliac diameter exceeds 3.5 cm, as opposed to 3.0 cm previously.

A mycotic aneurysm of the abdominal aorta caused by after intravesical instillation with bacillus Calmette-Guérin.

Intravesical administration of bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a live attenuated strain of , plays an important role in adjuvant treatment of superficial bladder cancer. Severe adverse events due to this treatment are rare. Complications of varying character and severity have been described, including rare BCG-related vascular infections.

Handlebar hernia: a case report and literature review on traumatic abdominal wall hernia in children.

A rare case of abdominal trauma, a handlebar hernia, is described, as well as a review of the pertinent literature. A 7-year-old boy presented to our emergency room after sustaining blunt force to the abdomen; he fell on the handlebar of his bicycle. Immediately after the accident, a bulge was noticeable at the point of impact.

[Diagnostic image (305). A boy with a painful and swollen scrotum].

Left double testis was diagnosed in a 12-year-old boy with a painful and swollen scrotum.

MR angiography of the lower extremities with a moving-bed infusion-tracking technique.

Purpose: To assess the value of MR angiography (MRA) with automatic table movement in a consecutive series of patients with peripheral arterial disease.

Methods: Seventy-two patients underwent both conventional angiography (CA) and MRA for peripheral arterial occlusive disease. Both techniques were scored in a masked way.

The effects of long-term graft preservation on intraoperative hemostatic changes in liver transplantation. A comparison between orthotopic and heterotopic transplantation in the pig.

Unlabelled: We compared hemostatic changes during OLT and HLT after various periods of graft storage, to investigate whether the host liver in HLT protects the recipient from hemostatic deterioration induced by severe graft storage damage. In particular, the mechanism of fibrinolytic deterioration was investigated. The effect of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) on these parameters was also studied.

The effects of long-term graft preservation and prostaglandin E1 on intraoperative hemodynamic changes in liver transplantation. A comparison between orthotopic and heterotopic transplantation in the pig.

The study aimed to compare the intraoperative hemodynamic changes during orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) with those during heterotopic liver transplantation (HLT) after different durations of cold storage of the graft. The effect of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) on these parameters was also studied. Sixty-nine female Yorkshire pigs underwent either OLT (n = 32) or HLT (n = 37) with a graft stored for 2 hr (n = 31), 24 hr (n = 16), 48 hr (n = 7), or 72 hr (n = 15).