Comparative analysis of perioperative outcomes in endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: Fascia iliaca block versus general anesthesia, a retrospective study.

Objective: This retrospective study aimed to compare rates of perioperative mortality and morbidity, especially pulmonary complication, between endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) performed under general anesthesia (GA) and under fascia iliaca block (FIB).

Methods: Patients diagnosed with infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) who were treated with EVAR were included. Retrospective review of electronic medical records was performed.

Long-term clinical outcomes of arterial bypass and the factors independently associated with the primary patency in patients with suprainguinal arterial occlusion.

Introduction: Aortoiliac occlusive disease and iliofemoral occlusion are impact patient quality of life, cause limb loss and mortality. The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term clinical outcomes of arterial bypass, and the factors associated with the outcomes.

Method: This retrospective chart/image review included all types of arterial bypass procedures performed for suprainguinal arterial occlusion during January 2004 to December 2017.

The quality and quantity media-cultured mononuclear cell transplantation is safe and effective in ischemic hindlimb mouse model.

Objective: This study was conducted to investigate in vitro proangiogenic and anti-inflammatory phenotypes and functions and the in vivo efficacy and safety of quality and quantity (QQ) media-cultured mononuclear cells (MNCs) compared with standard cultured MNCs from the peripheral blood of patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) with atherosclerotic risk factors.

Methods: Peripheral blood MNCs (PBMNCs) from patients with CLTI were cultured in QQ culture media or standard culture media. Phenotypic analysis of progenitor cells (CD34CD133), M2 macrophages (CD206), and inactivated T regulatory cells (CD4CD25CD127), colony-forming assay, and tube formation assay of QQ media-cultured MNCs (QQMNCs) and PBMNCs, were conducted.

Prevalence and predictors of combined >50% iliocaval venous obstruction and superficial venous reflux in chronic venous insufficiency patients with healed or active venous leg ulcer.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence and predictors of combined >50% iliocaval venous obstruction (ICVO) and superficial venous reflux (SVR) in patients with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) with a healed (C5) or an active (C6) venous leg ulcer (VLU).

Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of prospectively collected data from patients with CVI with CEAP (Clinical, Etiology, Anatomy, Pathophysiology) class C5 (healed ulcer) or C6 (active ulcer) with SVR who had been treated at our institution from February 2017 to January 2018. The demographic, clinical, and surgical data and duplex ultrasound and computed tomography venography findings were collected.

Midterm outcomes of endovascular treatment for infected aortic aneurysms: Single center experience.

Objective: The standard treatment of infected aortic aneurysms is open surgical repair but mortality rates remain high with the common cause of death being sepsis. Endovascular treatment of infected aortic aneurysms is another option and here we report the midterm outcomes of endovascular treatment for infected aortic aneurysms.

Methods: Thirty-four patients with infected aortic aneurysms underwent endovascular and hybrid repair between December 2012 and June 2021.