Anticoagulation in the context of post-intracerebral haemorrhage: A narrative review.

Background: Recommencement of oral anticoagulation (OAC) for patients post-intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) remains a challenging decision for clinicians. High-quality evidence to assist with this decision is lacking and current guidelines primarily focus on balancing thromboembolic and bleeding risk.

Objective: This study evaluated the literature and current guidelines for recommencement of OAC in patients who have experienced an incident ICH.

Infrapopliteal application of sirolimus-eluting versus bare metal stents for critical limb ischemia: analysis of long-term angiographic and clinical outcome.

Purpose: To present the 3-year angiographic and clinical results of a prospective registry investigating the performance of sirolimus-eluting stents (SESs) versus bare metal stents (BMSs) for critical limb ischemia (CLI) treatment.

Materials And Methods: A single-center double-arm prospective registry included patients with CLI who underwent infrapopliteal revascularization with angioplasty and "bailout" use of an SES or BMS. Clinical and angiographic follow-up was scheduled at regular time intervals.

Sirolimus-eluting versus bare stents after suboptimal infrapopliteal angioplasty for critical limb ischemia: enduring 1-year angiographic and clinical benefit.

Purpose: To report the 1-year angiographic and clinical outcome from a prospective single-center study investigating the infrapopliteal application of sirolimus-eluting versus bare metal stents in patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) who underwent below-the-knee endovascular revascularization.

Methods: Stenting was performed as a bailout procedure for suboptimal angioplasty results (flow-limiting dissection, elastic recoil, or postangioplasty residual stenosis >30%). In the first 29 patients, infrapopliteal stenting was performed with bare metal stents (group B) and with sirolimus-eluting stents in the other 29 patients (group S).

Sirolimus-eluting versus bare stents for bailout after suboptimal infrapopliteal angioplasty for critical limb ischemia: 6-month angiographic results from a nonrandomized prospective single-center study.

Purpose: To report the 6-month angiographic results from a prospective single-center study investigating the efficacy and outcome of sirolimus-eluting stents used for bailout after infrapopliteal revascularization of patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI).

Methods: Twenty-nine patients (21 men; mean age 68.7 years) underwent infrapopliteal revascularization with bare metal stents (group B) implanted for bailout in 65 lesions (38 stenoses and 27 occlusions) in 40 infrapopliteal arteries.

Vascular injury complicating lumbar disc surgery. A systematic review.

Objectives: to review the literature concerning the early and late vascular complications of lumbar disc surgery.

Methods: using the MEDLINE database, we reviewed all reports of vascular complications associated with surgical excision of a prolapsed disc via a posterior approach reported in the English literature since 1965.

Results: we identified 98 cases of vascular complications for an incidence of 1-5 in 10000 disc operations.

Popliteal venous aneurysm mimicking a soft tissue tumour. A case report.

A case of a giant, thrombosed popliteal venous aneurysm without pulmonary embolism in a 53-year-old woman is reported. Despite thorough preoperative investigation including ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging, this was misdiagnosed as a benign soft tissue tumour. During the operation the thrombosed venous aneurysm was resected and a vein graft from the contralateral saphenous vein was interposed.

Aortocaval fistula in ruptured aneurysms.

Objectives: to study incidence, clinical presentation and problems in management of aortocaval fistula in our series.

Design: retrospective study.

Materials: during a seven-year period, 112 patients operated on for abdominal aortic aneurysm, including four patients with aortocaval fistula.

Neurophysiologic studies in peripheral arterial disease.

The purpose of the study was to compare the electrophysiological parameters (nerve conduction studies and quantitative electromyography [EMG]) between patients with chronic peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and normal control subjects. Forty patients with PAD and 30 control subjects (40 legs) were evaluated clinically and electrophysiologically using previously described methods. The amplitude of compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) and the motor conduction velocities (MCVs) of peroneal and tibial nerve for most patients with PAD were within normal limits but compared with those of the controls, it was found that the peroneal and tibial MCVs as well as the amplitude of sural nerve were significantly decreased.

Seasonal variation of the abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture in southwestern Greece.

Objective: To examine the hypothesis of seasonal variation in the rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm in our region.

Design: Retrospective open study.

Setting: University Hospital, Greece.