Endovascular interventions for TransAtlantic InterSociety Consensus II C and D femoropopliteal lesions.

Background: Peripheral artery disease accounts for more than 400 000 hospitalizations in the USA and results in symptoms ranging from claudication to gangrene. Recent advances in endovascular techniques have led to a more aggressive approach for treating peripheral artery disease. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the outcomes of endovascular interventions on TransAtlantic InterSociety Consensus (TASC) II C and D femoropopliteal occlusive disease.

[Improving the dissolution rate of poorly water-soluble resveratrol by the ordered mesoporous silica].

The aim of this study is to synthesize the ordered mesoporous silica (OMS) as drug carrier to improve release property of insoluble drug and investigate the dissolution profile of insoluble drug from the porous carrier. The OMS was obtained by using cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide as the template and resveratrol was selected as the model drug. The resveratrol-loaded OMS (Res-OMS) were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), N2 adsorption-desorption, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and FT-IR spectroscopy.

[Endovascular angioplasty for the treatment of long iliac artery chronic total occlusions].

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness, safety and feasibility of endovascular angioplasty in treating long iliac artery chronic total occlusions (CTO).

Methods: The clinical data from a consecutive series of patients with long (> 5 cm) iliac artery CTO who treated by endovascular angioplasty from January 2006 to December 2010 was retrospectively analyzed. There were 139 patients (157 limbs) with long iliac artery CTO treated by endovascular angioplasty in this study [male 93 and female 46, mean age (77 ± 10) years].

[Early surgery for iliac-femoral post-thrombotic syndrome and related experimental study].

Objectives: To confirm the occurrence time of iliac-femoral post-thrombotic syndrome (IFPTS) with the experimental analysis of fibrinolytic activation and vessel wall remodeling after iliofemoral vein thrombosis (IFVT). To explore the optimal timing of surgery for IFPTS with comparative study of surgical effect after early and late treatment.

Methods: IFVT was performed on 20 SD rats.

Optimization of the model of abdominal aortic aneurysm by co-incubation of calcium chloride and collagenase in rats.

Objective: To optimize the model of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in rats using calcium chloride (CaCl2) and collagenase together.

Methods: This study was performed at the 9th People's Hospital, Institute of Traumatic Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China from July 2008 to February 2009. Aortas of 55 adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed and incubated for 20 minutes with fresh normal saline solutions supplemented with CaCl2 (0.

[Surgical treatment of visceral artery aneurysms].

Objective: To analyze the experience with diagnosis and surgical treatment of visceral artery aneurysms (VAAs).

Methods: From June 2003 to December 2008, 8 patients (2 male and 6 female) with 9 VAAs underwent surgical treatment. Mean age was 49 years (ranged from 30 to 72 years).

[The prevention and management of subintimal angioplasty complications].

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the prevention and management of subintimal angioplasty (SIA) to treat lower extremity arterial occlusions.

Methods: From December 2003 to May 2008, 106 lower extremities with arterial occlusions (median length of 10.8 cm, range from 4.

[The clinical values of subintimal angioplasty for treatment lower extremity arterial occlusions].

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the technical feasibility and early outcomes of subintimal angioplasty to treat lower extremity arterial occlusions.

Methods: During a 2-year period (from December 2003 to December 2005), 36 lower extremities with arterial occlusions (median length, 11.5 cm; range, 4.