Aortic endograft infolding is considered a rare endograft related complication and is mostly reported after deployment in the thoracic aorta. We report a case of early abdominal endograft infolding with luminal obliteration and acute bilateral limb ischemia after endovascular treatment of a common iliac aneurysm. Even though completion Computed Tomography (CT) angiography, three days prior, rev...

It is thirty-five years since the initial coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) was performed in Japan in 1970. There was more risk in surgery in the early days, and many efforts have been made to decrease the mortality rate. Since the 1980’s when I was training to be a heart surgeon, surgical outcomes have improved, and the number of surgical cases has been steadily increasing. Since the long-te...

BACKGROUND The left internal mammary artery (LIMA) is the choice for grafting of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD). One possible mechanism of the rare graft failure involve the presence of competitive flow. METHOD 105 patients who had undergone coronary bypass grafting between 1998 and 2000 were included in this observational study. The recatheterizations were performed 28 mo...

The purpose of this study was to histometrically evaluate an absorbable collagen membrane (Bio-Gide) and a nonabsorbable polytetrafluoroethylene membrane (PTFE), associated with or without bone grafts, regarding "re-osseointegration" after treating ligature-induced peri-implantitis defects in dogs. All mandibular premolars were removed from five 2-year-old mongrel dogs. After 3 months of healin...

BACKGROUND Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a kind of dangerous aortic vascular disease, which is characterized by abdominal aorta partial enlargement. At present, endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) is one of the main treatments of abdominal aortic aneurysm. However for some patients after EVAR the aneurysm re-expanded and even ruptured, leading to poor postoperative effect. The stent-graft ...

Adenovirus-mediated transfection of mouse cardiac allografts with active human transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta1) prolongs transplant survival provided that recipients are initially depleted of CD8+ T cells. To test if graft survival was prolonged by persistent TGF-beta1 transgene expression, long-term transfected allografts were re-transplanted into naïve mice that were transiently ...

Long-term patency of saphenous vein grafts remains low. Recurrent ischemia after late graft failure can be treated by re-operation or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The intervention can be performed in the native artery or the bridging vein graft. We report a case of 62-year-old patient, who presented with a recurrent ischemic heart disease despite many revascularization attempts. In...

Abstract OBJECTIVES Our aim was to evaluate the mid-term outcomes of bovine pericardial tube graft repair for infectious aortic disease in any segment. METHODS Between May 2015 and July 2020, 45 patients were treated native (n = 9) aorta or after (endo-)graft 36) implantation with grafts. Clinical, details, follow-up data evaluated. RESULTS All segments underwent bifurcational replacement: root...

The aim of this retrospective clinical study is to present the clinical experience of using dermis-fat interpositional grafts in the surgical management of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) ankylosis in adult patients. Eleven adult patients who presented with ankylosis of the TMJ were identified and included in the study. All patients underwent a TMJ gap arthroplasty which involved the removal of a...

OBJECTIVES Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) may be required after orthotopic heart transplantation (OHTx) in children for the treatment of failure or rejection. We review the incidence and outcomes of post-transplant MCS in our institution. METHODS MCS was classified as early (<1 month since transplant) or late (>1 month since transplant) and the support offered was either veno-arterial e...