A 76-year-old woman underwent a Bentall procedure for acute aortic dissection. A dissection involving half of the proximal portion of the left main coronary artery trunk was confirmed. The dissected site was resected, and a section of the superficial femoral artery was harvested and used as an interposition graft between conduit and the residual left main trunk. Two years after surgery, the gra...

Femoral artery pseudoaneurysms are commonly iatrogenic due to increasing use of the artery for arterial interventions. Other reasons of pseudoaneurysm formation are intravenous drug use and penetrating trauma. Here, we have discussed the management strategy of a femoral artery pseuodoaneursym and the modalities for preventing the misdiagnoses of the pseudoaneurysm in the emergency department. A...

Method Three patients, male, admitted for acute coronary syndrome with three vessels CAD and low ejection fraction below 30 %, were operated in our department. After preliminary lower limb duplex ultrasound to exclude peripheral artery disease, an Impella Recover LP 5.0 device was inserted via surgical exposure of the right femoral artery in one case and an Impella recover LP 4,5 via percutaneo...

Access for endovascular treatment of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) is usually gained through an antegrade approach from the ipsilateral common femoral artery (CFA), or by crossing over from the contralateral CFA. In this technical note, an alternative method, based on retrograde access of the ipsilateral iliac artery (IA), and conversion into an antegrade approach to the SFA, is describe...

Common femoral artery occlusions are usually treated with open vascular surgical repair. We present a case of common femoral artery occlusion that was successfully treated with the FoxHollow SilverHawk atherectomy catheter. The use of this device obviated the need for adjunctive balloon angioplasty and stenting. The patient was discharged without complications after 1 day.

Recently, we experienced a case where the diagnosis and management of a deep femoral artery rupture was delayed. This vascular complication occurred during the insertion of a distal interlocking screw of a proximal femoral nail for the fixation of an intertrochanteric femur fracture. A 79-year-old male patient was diagnosed with a right intertrochanteric fracture after a fall. We fixed the frac...

AIM To determine the pattern of origin of medial circumflex femoral artery (MCFA), its origin distance from the midpoint of the inguinal ligament and the topographical relations of the origin, which have great significance in clinical work. METHODS Dissections on the autopsy group of 42 thighs were performed, and anatomical relationships of MCFA was analyzed. All data were entered into a sche...

BACKGROUND Arterial aneurysm is a known complication of syphilis, but the occurrence of femoral artery aneurysm secondary to the syphilitic disease has never been reported. CASE PRESENTATION The present study described a 60-year-old Chinese male who presented with two aneurysms in the middle and lower segment of the right superficial femoral artery causing the symptoms of pain, coldness and n...

BACKGROUND Patients requiring dialysis due to acute or chronic renal failure frequently require temporary vascular access. Femoral vein catheterization is the easiest method for obtaining temporary vascular access in haemodialysis patients. The aim of this study was to utilize ultrasound imaging to describe femoral vein structures and to examine anatomical variations in uraemic patients. METH...

PURPOSE To compare the continuous and interrupted suture technique on femoral artery on rats after vessel repair and 14 days after. METHODS Twenty rats were operated randomly divided into two group matched according to the suture technique used: interrupted or continuous. We performed a femoral anastomosis on the right femoral artery. We analyzed weight, arterial caliber, anastomosis time and...