BACKGROUND We described a case of endoluminal stent placement for a cervical internal carotid artery stenosis in which access was obtained via the femoral bypass graft. CASE DESCRIPTION A 70-year-old man with known disease of the carotid, peripheral, and coronary arteries as well as congestive heart failure presented for endoluminal revascularization of a severe right internal carotid artery ...

Corresponding author: Kudret Keskin MD, Cardiology Department, Medicana Hospitals Bahçelievler, Eski Londra AsfaltI Haznedar, 34100 Istanbul, Turkey, phone: +905054015847, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 13.07.2013, accepted: 18.04.2014. A 65-year-old man was admitted for peripheral angiography because of intermittent claudication. On physical examination the right femoral pulse was fo...

BACKGROUND Ultrasonographic assessments of intima-media thickness and plaques in the carotid artery are widely used as surrogate markers for coronary atherosclerosis, but prospective evaluations are scarce and appear to be lacking in patients with coronary artery disease. Ultrasonographic evaluations of femoral vascular changes have not been studied prospectively. METHODS AND RESULTS In the A...

Results. We have found high frequency of MFA simultaneously affecting coronary, carotid and femoral arteries. Intima-media thickness (IMT), which is a coronary atherosclerosis marker, had verifiable increasing in the common carotid artery (CCA) and common femoral artery (CFA) in the case of patients with chronic heart disease (CHD). In patients with CHD using ultrasound we established high freq...

Brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) is a strong predictor of future cardiovascular disease and is believed to represent a "barometer" of systemic endothelial health. Although a recent study [Padilla et al. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 235: 1287-1291, 2010] in pigs confirmed a strong correlation between brachial and femoral artery endothelial function, it is unclear to what extent brachial ar...

Elastic properties of major arteries were measured in vivo in ten normal volunteers. age 26 to 44 years (mean = 32 years). A B-mode ultrasound imager was used to noninvasively measure mean diameter and pulsatile diameter change at five locations along the main arteries in the abdomen and the lower extremities. Together with pulsatile pressure (measured by the auscultatory method), strain (E), c...

BACKGROUND We report an intraoperative retrograde dissection of the aorta and its subsequent evaluation by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). CASE PRESENTATION A 78 year old woman with an ascending aortic aneurysm without dissection and coronary artery disease was brought to the operating room for aneurysm repair and coronary artery bypass grafting. After initiation of cardiopulmonary by...

BACKGROUND We examined whether intracoronary or intrafemoral administration of ranolazine produces local vasodilation. METHODS AND RESULTS Effects of intra-arterial ranolazine on coronary and femoral artery vasodilation and systemic hemodynamic function were studied in anesthetized pigs (n=27). Ranolazine, nitroglycerin, or saline (control) was injected into the left anterior descending (LAD)...

A 96-year-old male presented with left lower extremity pain, swelling, and vascular compromise. Computed tomographic angiography revealed an actively rupturing distal superficial femoral artery aneurysm. The patient underwent prompt aneurysm excision with graft interposition and had a successful postoperative outcome. Our case illustrates the critical role of imaging in establishing a definitiv...

INTRODUCTION A 75-year-old male patient with significant cardiopulmonary comorbidity presented with a 70-mm left femoral pseudoaneurysm 6 years after aortobifemoral bypass (and prior femoral endarterectomy). REPORT As the left superficial femoral artery was occluded, an ilioprofunda endobypass was undertaken following extraperitoneal exposure of the left limb of the bypass graft with subseque...