A systematic review of covered balloon-expandable stents for treating aortoiliac occlusive disease.

Objective: To evaluate and compare studies reporting the outcomes of the use of covered balloon-expandable (CBE) stents for the treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease.

Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted to identify studies that investigated the use of CBE stents for the treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease and were published between 2000 and 2019. Baseline demographic data, procedural variables, and long-term outcomes were extracted from publications for analysis.

Sex-Related Outcomes After Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Within the Global Registry for Endovascular Aortic Treatment.

Background: Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are more common in men. However, women have been shown to have more short- and long-term adverse outcomes after endovascular aneurysm repair. This disparity is thought to be multifactorial, including anatomical differences, hormonal differences, older age of presentation, and a greater degree of preoperative comorbidities.

Short-term feed deprivation rapidly induces the protein degradation pathway in skeletal muscles of young mice.

Analysis of protein kinase B (AKT) and S6 kinase1 (p70S6K) activity is widely used to assess the efficacy of interventions designed to increase or maintain skeletal muscle mass; these studies are often performed on feed-deprived mice. One problem associated with feed deprivation is that it promotes catabolism, and young or metabolically compromised mice may have less tolerance. The aim of our study was to determine the effect of various times of feed deprivation on the activity of AKT and p70S6K signaling and markers of protein catabolism in young, growing mice compared with adult mice.