The knowledge of vascular variations like other anatomical variations, is important during the operative, diagnostic, and endovascular procedures in abdomen. This report describes multiple variations in the upper abdominal vessels as found during the routine dissection in a 60-year-old male cadaver. The variations found were; presence of a celiaco-mesenterico-phrenic trunk, a common inferior ph...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of age on regional aortic pulse wave velocity (aPWV). BACKGROUND aPWV is an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk and increases exponentially with age. However, it is unclear whether such changes occur uniformly along the length of the aorta or vary by region. METHODS A total of 162 subjects, aged 18 to 77 years and fre...

Peripheral (brachial) pulse pressure normally exceeds central (aortic) pulse pressure but is a less powerful predictor of cardiovascular risk. The difference between the 2 variables, called pulse pressure amplification, has never been specifically studied between the proximal and distal aorta in coronary patients. Our goal was to determine aortic pulse pressure amplification in subjects at high...

OBJECTIVES Genome wide association studies have consistently reported associations between a region on chromosome 9p21.3 and a broad range of vascular diseases, such as coronary artery disease (CAD), aortic and intracranial aneurysms and type-2 diabetes (T2D). However, clear associations with intermediate phenotypes have not been described so far. To shed light on a possible influence of this c...

INTRODUCTION Several studies have found an increased incidence of peripheral aneurysms in patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). The aim of this study was to determine whether screening for popliteal aneurysms should be part of an AAA screening programme. SETTING A community-based AAA screening programme. METHODS The diameters of the internal abdominal aorta and both popliteal ar...

Although more than 5% of the geriatric male population is thought to have an abdominal aortic aneurysm, no study has evaluated the ability of ED physician sonographers to screen for this condition. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a screening program to sonographically identify abdominal aortic aneurysms would result in increased identification of this potentially lethal diseas...

An unusual case of a 23-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with a palpable aortic pulse in the epigastric area (Picture 1 white arrow). Her medical history revealed dilation of the ascending aorta, hind foot deformity, pectus excavatum, dural ectasia, scoliosis, skin striae and mitre valve prolapse typical signs associated with Marfan’s Syndrome (1). Recent CT angiography findings of t...

nutcracker syndrome (ncs) is a rare pathology, caused by compression of the left renal vein (lrv) between the abdominal aorta (aa) and the superior mesenteric artery (sma), due to reduction of the angle between aa and sma. this leads to lrv varices, left gonadal vein varices and therefore, the pelvic congestion syndrome. for this reason, coexistence of ncs and pelvic congestion syndrome has bee...