Received May 2013 Accepted April 2014 Department of Thoracic and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospital of Grenoble, Grenoble, France. A 44-year-old hypertensive man was referred to our department for an infradiaphragmatic right-sided suprarenal mass. Biological examinations were compatible with a pheochromocytoma. A computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a 28 × 23 mm mass located upper an ipsi...

The vascular complications, their management and results of treatment in 417 consecutive renal transplantations performed at Taleghani Hospital from September 1989 to December 1997, are presented. There were 7 (1.6%) vascular complications. Among them renal artery stenosis occurred in 2 cases (0.4%), renal artery thrombosis in 2 cases (0.4%), renal vein thrombosis in one case (0.2%), bleed...

To investigate potential associations between carotid artery stenosis and cognitive impairment among patients with acute ischemic stroke and to provide important clinical implications. We measured the degree of carotid artery stenosis and recorded the Mini-Mental State Examination score (MMSE) at admission in 3116 acute ischemic stroke patients. The association between carotid stenosis and cogn...

six patients with mitral stenosis complicated by renal artery embolism studied prospectively are presented. in five patients there was unilateral and in one patient bilateral renal artery involvement. the diagnosis was confirmed by intravenous pyelography, retrograde pyelography, renal angiography, renal scan or a combination of these. all had atrial fibrillation, proteinuria and elevated ldh l...

Cerebral complications after cardiac surgery are a significant cause of morbidity, mortality, and financial cost. Numerous risk factors have been proposed to explain the risk of cerebral damage. Carotid artery disease has an important role. Percentage carotid artery stenosis is the only measure of carotid artery disease that is used by cardiac surgeons to determine the need for either a carotid...

BACKGROUND Twenty to 30 percent of all transient ischaemic attacks and ischaemic strokes involve tissue supplied by the vertebrobasilar circulation. Atherosclerotic stenosis >/= 50% in the vertebral artery accounts for vertebrobasilar stroke in at least one third of the patients. The risk of recurrent vascular events in patients with vertebral stenosis is uncertain and revascularisation of vert...

OBJECTIVE To compare the severity of carotid artery disease in diabetic and non-diabetic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. METHODS From January to June 2008, 379 patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass surgery were preoperatively evaluated for the presence of carotid stenoses by duplex scanning. Patients were divided into two groups, Group I, 156 (41.2%) diabeti...

The effects of graded renal artery stenosis on renal and systemic hemodynamics and plasma renin activity (PRA) were studied in conscious, chronically instrumented dogs. In mild and moderate stenosis (following rapid reduction in distal renal artery pressure to 60 or 40 mm Hg) there was initial vasodilatibn followed by prompt restoration within 5-30 minutes of renal artery pressure and vascular ...

Coronary-subclavian steal (CSS) can occur after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) using the internal thoracic artery (ITA). Subclavian artery (SA) stenosis proximal to the ITA graft causes CSS. We describe a technique for cardiac and cerebral protection during endovascular stenting for CSS due to right SA origin stenosis after CABG. A 64-year-old man with a history of CABG using the right ...

Coronary artery disease has been the utmost mutual heart in past decades. Various research is going on to prevent this disease. Obstructive CAD occurs when one or more of coronary arteries which supply blood myocardium are narrowed owing plaque build-up arteries’ inner walls, causing stenosis. The fundamental task required for interpretation angiography identification and quantification severit...