To cite: Solak Y, Biyik Z, Ozbek O, et al. BMJ Case Reports Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2012007442 DESCRIPTION A 45 -year-old man was admitted to hospital due to uncontrolled hypertension. He had hypertension for 15 years and was on trandolapril+verapamil and cardura treatment. One year ago renal artery stenosis was detected by ultrasound but the patient de...

OBJECTIVE As in Part I, to elucidate the role of fluid mechanical factors in the localized genesis and development of atherosclerotic lesions in man, here in the abdominal aorta. METHODS Flow patterns and preferred sites of atherosclerotic lesions in the aorta were studied in detail using the same isolated transparent aortic trees prepared from humans postmortem and the flow visualization and...

BackgroundThe objective of the study was to assess long-term remodeling, survival, and reintervention outcomes after thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) for subacute chronic type B dissection (TBAD).MethodsAll patients who underwent TEVAR or TBAD at a tertiary referral center between 1999 2015 were included in this cohort study. The primary outcome secondary rate major complications, re...

We examined the water, sodium, and potassium composition of the thoracic aorta, abdominal aorta (plus iliac arteries), and veins (vena cava and portal vein) from rats with aortic coarctation. The aortas of 10 rats (group A) were coarcted above the renal arteries to produce hypertension. Control groups consisted of 10 rats sham-coarcted above and 10 rats coarcted below the renal arteries. In gro...

BACKGROUND Vascular variations regarding the branching pattern of the aorta are important in different laparoscopic surgeries, liver and kidney transplantation, oncologic resections, and various interventional radiological procedures in the abdominal region. The present work was undertaken on cadavers to examine the prevalence of vascular patterns of the important branches of the abdominal aort...

PURPOSE To describe anatomic features pertinent to patient selection and graft design for transfemoral endovascular aneurysm management (TEAM) of the infrarenal aorta using computed tomographic (CT) angiography. METHODS A prospective noncomparative analysis of 102 spiral CT scans of the abdominal aorta of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms was performed. From the original CT data set, s...

We present the case of a 53-year-old man with renal and bilateral limb ischemia due to Stanford B aortic dissection. The thrombosis of the false lumen had progressed and compressed the true lumen, developing renal and leg ischemia. Urgent graft replacement of the infrarenal abdominal aorta with proximal fenestration was successfully performed and the patient was discharged without complications.

Double left renal vein is a rare venous anomaly. In 6.5% of cases double left renal vein, one in front (preaortic) and another behind the abdominal aorta (retroaortic) has been reported. The development of renal vessels is very complicated. There are extensive changes which occur in subcardinal, supracardinal and sacrocardinal veins during development that may lead to congenital venous anomalie...

One of the locations of renal artery atherosclerosis is at the orifice of the renal artery, therefore thestructure of this orifice was assessed in 6 normal, adult male dogs by light microscopy (LM) andtransmission electron microscopy (TEM). For the LM study, processed tissues were embedded in paraffinand sectioned serially into 6-μm thickness. Sections were stained with orcein. For the TEM stud...

A 66-year-old gentleman presents with extent II thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) secondary to chronic dissection with a maximal diameter of 6 cm. Partial thrombosis of false lumen in thoracic and abdominal aorta was present. Intimal tear was detected at the origin of the left subclavian artery and the dissection extended down to the aortic bifurcation. The left femoral artery, ascending ...