[Shaving of popliteal artery secondary to a knee arthroscopy].

Popliteal artery lesions are rare complications of knee surgery and may have significant sequelae depending on the length of time it takes to diagnose this type of vascular injury. We present two case reports of popliteal artery following meniscus resection by shaving.

May-Thurner syndrome will be completed?

Background: The May-Thurner syndrome is a deep venous thrombosis of the left iliofemoral vein due to a compression by the right primitive iliac artery. Some authors suggested that this syndrome could be associated with genetics factors predisposing to thrombophilia.

Objectives: The aim of this article is to assess if the May-Thurner syndrome could be associated with inherited thombophilia particularly the factor V mutation.

Infection of an abdominal aortic stent graft with suprarenal attachment.

Stent grafting for treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm can lead to infectious complications. The purpose of this report is to describe a case involving a patient with an aortobiliac stent graft, a horseshoe kidney, and coronary artery disease who presented suprarenal aortic infection requiring removal of the stent graft and in situ reconstruction using an arterial homograft. The discussion deals with management of infected vascular material and reconstruction techniques.

The cuff leak test to predict failure of tracheal extubation for laryngeal edema.

Objective: Laryngeal edema secondary to endotracheal intubation may require early re-intubation. Prior to extubation the absence of leak around an endotracheal tube may predict laryngeal edema after extubation. We evaluated the usefulness of a quantitative assessment of such a leak to identify the patients who will require early re-intubation for laryngeal edema.