Airway events in obese vs. non-obese elective surgical patients: a cross-sectional observational study.

Obesity is an increasingly prevalent comorbidity within the UK population. The aim of this study was to determine the proportion of obese patients in an elective surgical population. The second aim was to determine the choice of airway equipment and incidence of airway events in obese vs.

Successful thrombolysis of a late acute thrombotic occlusion of an aortic prosthesis after endovascular aneurysm repair.

A 79-year-old man with a previous endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) for a 5.4-cm abdominal aortic aneurysm presented 3 years after the procedure with sudden onset lower limb paralysis and pain. The diagnosis of acute aortic thrombosis within the aortic prosthesis graft was made and confirmed on computed tomography.