Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) has become an appropriate alternative to conventional surgical tracheostomy. It is now performed worldwide by a diverse array of physician specialists. Although adverse events are relatively uncommon, serious complications can arise from this bedside procedure. We report a patient who suffered life-threatening hemorrhage from a common carotid artery ...

Objective: To compare the outcomes of excision pseudo aneurysm along with ligation and local debridement revascularization in management infected femoral among drug addicts. Study Design: Retrospective Analytic study. Setting: Surgical Unit-1, Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi. Period: July 2010 to 2019. Material & Method: Among patients presented Emergency out department. Data was collec...

we report a unique case of chronic dissection of the ascending aorta complicated with huge and thrombotic pseudoaneurysm in a patient with coarctation of descending aorta. preoperative investigations such as transesophageal echocardiography (tee) confirmed the diagnosis of dissection. intraoperative findings included a12 cm eccentric bulge of the right lateral side of dilated the ascending aort...

INTRODUCTION Hepatic arterial liver flow is renowned for its redundancy. Previous studies have demonstrated that the common hepatic artery is not essential for liver survival. We present a case of a 31year-old involved in a high-speed motor vehicle accident whose liver survived thanks to the presence of an accessory hepatic artery. PRESENTATON OF THE CASE We present the case of a 31year-old m...

the aim of this study is to evaluate the complication rate of diagnostic and interventional angioplasty performed by vascular surgeon in imam reza hospital in kermanshah, in 2010-2011. in this descriptive –analytic study, 259 patients who underwent diagnostic interventional angiography in imam reza hospital of kermanshah were selected using convenience sampling. the data gathering tool was a pr...

A 68-year-old woman was referred for investigation of pulmonary artery hypertension. Right heart catheterisation was performed and the tip of the catheter was positioned in the right middle lobe pulmonary artery under fluoroscopic guidance. A Swan–Ganz balloon was inflated to record a pressure of 78/23 mm Hg (mean 42 mm Hg). Immediately after the balloon was inflated, the patient experienced sm...

Compartment syndrome of the left hand from a late diagnosed post-traumatic ulnar artery pseudoaneurysm. We report the case of 27 years old boy with a tipping and cutting wound on his left wrist, generating an ulnar artery pseudoaneurysm, that was late diagnosed, and therefore complicated by a compartment syndrome in the wrist. Immediately after the trauma the subject went to the emergency room ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate retrospectively the results, complications and follow-up of patients after endovascular treatment of vascular injuries. METHODS Fifty transcatheter embolisation procedures (TCE) were performed in 46 patients between 1999 and 2008 at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. Injuries in 14 (30.4%) patients were due to road traffic accident; iatrogenic in 13 (28%); accide...