Echolucent or predominantly echolucent femoral plaques predict early restenosis after eversion carotid endarterectomy.

Objective: Although the association between vulnerable lesions and cardiovascular events is well established, little is known about their relationship to postsurgery restenosis. To address this issue, we initiated a prospective, nonrandomized study to examine the femoral plaques on both sides in patients who were undergoing eversion carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and were longitudinally followed-up for early restenosis development.

Methods: The final analysis enrolled 321 patients (189 women) with a median age of 67.

Post-traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the great saphenous vein: a case report.

Venous (pseudo)aneurysms are rare entities. Herewith we report a case of the right lower extremity in a 42-year-old woman in whom a non-pulsatile mass was diagnosed only by physical examination as a hematoma and was treated conservatively. Six months later ultrasound and phlebography identified a pseudoaneurysm of the great saphenous vein.

[Arterial thrombolysis in the lower extremity in vascular surgical practice].

The acute arterial thrombosis of the lower limb is dangerous not only for the limb, but it can cause life-threatening situation as well. That is why it is important to use different therapeutical modalities as the catheter guided intraarterial thrombolysis, which can reduce the surgical risks. All the drugs used for lysis now days are plasminogen activators.

[Congenital arteriovenous malformation complicated with brachial artery false aneurysm].

Congenital arteriovenous malformations in the upper extremity, mainly in the hand are rare. In this patient an arteriovenous fistula of the hand caused arterial dilatation of the upper limb, and blunt injury of brachial artery resulted in an extreme large false aneurysm. This situation, which threatened with rupture and peripheral embolisation was treated by resection of the false aneurysm with end-to-end direct anastomosis.

Changes in the plasma concentration of soluble thrombomodulin in patients with severe carotid artery stenosis after eversion endarterectomy.

Objective And Design: The purpose of the study was to investigate the putative role of soluble thrombomodulin (sTM) in severe carotid artery stenosis.

Materials And Methods: We prospectively studied 64 patients who were undergoing carotid endarterectomy (2001-2003). Plasma sTM concentration was determined in each patient before surgery and at 14 months postsurgery.