[The comparison of operative and non-operative treatment for acute embolism of upper extremity artery].

Objective: To compare surgical and non-surgical therapy of the upper extremity after acute arterial occlusion. To analyze the relation between prognosis and relevant factors of different therapeutic methods.

Methods: Sixty patients with acute upper extremity arterial embolism treated between January 1990 and October 2007 were retrospectively studied in The First Hospital of China Medical University.

[Clinico-epidemiological features of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm and relevant prognostic factors].

Objective: To investigate the clinico-epidemiology features of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and relevant prognostic factors.

Methods: The clinical records of 375 infrarenal AAA patients, 282 males and 93 females, aged (62 +/- 15), hospitalized 1988 -2007 were analyzed.

Results: In recent ten years, the number of patients admitted because of AAA was 186.