The inflammatory response following treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms: a comparison between open surgery and endovascular repair.

Objectives: to compare the inflammatory response following endovascular and conventional AAA repair.

Design: prospective study.

Patients And Methods: ten patients were selected for open surgery (OPEN) and ten for endovascular (ENDO) AAA repair.

Cross-sectional early mitral flow-velocity profiles from color Doppler in patients with mitral valve disease.

Background: Cross-sectional flow-velocity profiles from early mitral flow in 20 patients (10 with mitral regurgitation and 10 with mitral stenosis) were constructed from the velocity data from each point in sequentially delayed two-dimensional digital Doppler ultrasound maps.

Methods And Results: The data suggested that the early mitral flow studied in an apical four-chamber view was variably skewed in both patient groups. The maximum flow velocity overestimated the cross-sectional mean velocity at the same time by a factor of 1.