Methods Patient Dina Zh., female, 14 years old. The patient was admitted to the Department of cardiology and rheumatology of Chelyabinsk regional paediatric hospital on January 15, 2014. Fatigue, dyspnoe, headache, skin rash, BP increase up to 160/100 mm hg were reported. Severe disease was reported upon hospitalization; justification: Polyserositis: bilateral focal pleuropneumonia, class 2 res...

RATIONALE Brucellosis is a multisystem infection found worldwide that has a broad range of characteristics, which range from acute fever and hepatomegaly to chronic infections that most commonly affect the central nervous system, cardiovascular system, or skeletal system. Gastrointestinal and splanchnic artery involvements in brucellosis are relatively uncommon. PATIENT CONCERNS We report a c...

A long-term, heavy methamphetamine user with life-threatening rectal hemorrhage was treated with transcatheter occlusion of the bleeding arteries. The bleeding blood vessels were vulnerable submucosal arteries, part of the collateral supply to the distal colon. Visceral arteriography demonstrates severe arterial stenotic lesions of the celiac axis, superior mesenteric artery and the inferior me...

The available evidence demonstrates that both laparoscopic and open ligament release associated with celiac ganglionectomy are effective in provide celiac artery revascularization and sustained symptom relief in the majority of patients with the syndrome2,3,5. The laparoscopic approach is feasible, safe, and successful, if performed by experienced laparoscopic surgeons. Although the laparoscopi...

Introduction Information regarding anatomical variations in the branching pattern of great vessels of the abdomen, including abdominal aorta, celiac trunk, mesenteric and renal arteries is imperative for planning surgical procedures and interpreting interventional radiological imaging. In fact, liver and kidney transplantations and oncologic resections require major vessels ligation. Background...

BACKGROUND To study the cause and outcome of ischemic liver necrosis and suggest treatment of these patients. METHODS Retrospective study of 13 patients with ischemic liver necrosis treated at our departments from 1990 until 1997. RESULTS Ischemic liver necrosis was caused by general hypoxia (n = 1) or acute arterial occlusion (n = 12) of the celiac and superior mesenteric artery (SMA, n = ...

Although digital angiography remains as the gold standard for imaging the celiac arterial trunk and hepatic arteries, multidetector computed tomography in association with digital images processing by software resources represents a useful tool particularly attractive for its non invasiveness. Knowledge of normal anatomy as well as of its variations is helpful in images interpretation and to ad...

We report 2 cases of complicated spontaneous dissection of the celiac artery, which were successfully treated by a stent graft. The first patient was a 47-year-old man who presented with acute abdominal pain. CT scan showed ruptured saccular aneurysm with surrounding retroperitoneal hematoma. The second patient was a 57-year-old man with progressive dissecting aneurysm. Endovascular stent graft...

The regional differentiation of carotid sinus control of arterial pressure-flow relationships was studied in chloralose-anesthetized dogs. Simulatneous pressure-flow measurements were made in the ascending aorta, the celiac artery, the cranial mesenteric artery, the renal artery, and the femoral artery. The carotid sinuses were bilaterally isolated and perfused with pulsatile pressure. The open...

PURPOSE To present a technique for renal and visceral revascularization allowing complete endovascular treatment of a ruptured type IV thoracoabdominal aneurysm using devices already stocked in most centers performing endovascular aneurysm repair. TECHNIQUE Open arterial access is obtained to both common femoral arteries and the left subclavian artery (LSA). Access to the visceral and renal a...