[Conventional open surgery of a splenic artery aneurysm following failure of endovascular management].

The clinical case of a 73 years old man is reported, complaining for a long time of a persistent abdominal pain in the left upper quadrants, without irradiation and no identified causative factor. These symptoms affected notoriously his quality of life, becoming disabling for his social and professional activities. The investigation by means of CT-scans disclosed a spheric mass, partially calcified, having 44x41mms of maximum size, located between the pancreatic tail and the splenic hilum.

[Chronic mesenteric ischemia revisited].

The authors report two clinical cases of rare and complex situations - an aortic dissection and an aortitis -, which had as a common denominator a chronic mesenteric ischemia. They discuss the indications and surgical strategies adopted.

["Ex-vivo" surgical repair of renal artery branches aneurysms].

The authors report the clinical case of complex aneurysms of intra-hilar branches of the renal artery, managed recently through a renal auto-transplantation procedures with "ex-vivo" repair, discussing the technique, the principles and the indications for this kind of procedure.

[Synchronous revascularization surgery of supraaortic trunks and abdominal visceral arteries. Case report].

The clinical case of a 50 years old female is reported, who was admitted at our hospital in very poor general condition, in a physical and psychologic state of exhaustion, due to a mesenteric vascular insufficiency syndrome (abdominal angina), for the last three years. She underwent a conventional angiographic evaluation, disclosing an occlusion of both the celiac axis and superior mesenteric artery and at the level of the aortic arch, an occlusion of the innominate artery associated to an ostial stenosis of the left common carotid artery was also found. The coronary circulation was normal.