A 28-year-old German-Caucasian man arrived with deep vein thrombosis DVT, pain, oedema and rubor of right lower limb and drug abuse. The US Doppler imaging showed an autogenic AV fistula and false aneurysm of the right superficial femoral artery and femoral vein. The CT imaging showed additional closing of the left external iliac artery and common femoral artery, and of the distal and middle pa...

The article introduced selected fragments of the "Manual for Teaching Surgery" by Professor St. Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy I.F. Bush (1771-1843), devoted to teaching about arterial aneurysm, into scientific circulation. For first time in Russian literature, defined divided aneurysm true, false, mixed arteriovenous, singled out spongy (hemangioma), described etiology, clinic, diagno...

An 82-year-old woman, who underwent axillo-bifemoral bypass for infrarenal aortic occlusion and peripheral arterial occlusive disease 9 years before, was admitted to our hospital for swelling in the left subclavicular region. Ultrasound examination revealed a leak in the wall of the bypass graft with the formation of a false aneurysm. No signs of infection, either locally or systemically, were ...

BACKGROUND After surgery to repair a type A aortic dissection, most late complications and mortality result from descending aorta-related problems. This study was performed to determine the risk factors leading to descending aortic aneurysm formation and late mortality in patients undergoing the type A aortic dissection operation. METHODS The medical records of patients who survived the opera...

Pulmonary artery false aneurysm is a rare condition, reported to complicate interventional procedures. We report a case of a false aneurysm of the interlobar pulmonary artery following a right middle lobectomy for lung cancer. This is probably the first reported case. Background Pulmonary artery false aneurysm is a rare condition, more common in females and with advancing age. It is related to ...

Pulmonary artery false aneurysm is a rare condition, reported to complicate interventional procedures. We report a case of a false aneurysm of the interlobar pulmonary artery following a right middle lobectomy for lung cancer. This is probably the first reported case. Background Pulmonary artery false aneurysm is a rare condition, more common in females and with advancing age. It is related to ...

A 67 year old man presented with a two month history of haemoptysis-10-20ml of fresh blood about once a week. Eight years earlier he had undergone elective resection of a saccular aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta of unknown aetiology. The aneurysm only had been excised and a Dacron onlay patch had been inserted. He had made an uneventful recovery and remained well until October (a) 198...

BACKGROUND The original 'candy-plug' technique has been reported to be beneficial for the treatment of residual perfused false lumen in patients with aortic dissection. However, this technique is also associated with several problems, such as narrowing of the true lumen and damage to the flap or vessel wall. Therefore, we modified the procedure to overcome these problems. Here we report a case ...