Intravenous drug abuse is an increasing social and health problem. Repeated injuries to the veins, injection of some types of insoluble substances, and needle sharing habits result in various complications. Increasing incidence of major vascular complications has been reported worldwide. The objective of this study was to determine the epidemiology of vascular lesions in drug abusers. Medical r...

ObjectiveTo investigate the use of cryopreserved arterial allografts (CAA) as a substitute for infected infrarenal aortic prostheses, and its outcomes.MethodsA single centre retrospective study consecutive patients receiving an abdominal CAA after removal graft was conducted between January 1997 December 2013. The primary outcome rate allograft related revision surgery. Secondary outcomes were ...

A 46-year old male patient was admitted with a history of an extremely painful right upper arm, associated with unilateral clubbing. Duplex scanning and magnetic resonance imaging were suggestive of a pseudo-aneurysm of the brachial artery. Digital angiography showed an irregular brachial artery, associated with a small pseudo-aneurysm. The brachial artery was partially resected and reconstruct...

A 57-year-old patient presents with a large mass at the right groin two months after cryoballoon-guided pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) (Fig. 1, left panel). A pseudo-aneurysm of the superficial femoral artery is seen on CT with a small, encapsulated active bleeding region (asterisk) surrounded by a large haematoma (arrow, Fig. 1, right panel). The pseudo-aneurysm of our patient was clinically m...

INTRODUCTION Complications involving injury to neurological and vascular structures are infrequently reported after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). They are associated with significant morbidity and can be limb threatening. PRESENTATION OF CASE We present a patient with an anterior tibial artery (ATA) aneurysm post total knee arthroplasty. A 69-year-old female was referred for a swelling over ...

Behçet's disease with concomitant thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), coronary artery stenosis and coronary artery pseudo aneurysm is rare. Here we report a case of Behçet's disease with several cardiovascular complications, namely: pericarditis, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), TTP, coronary artery stenosis, and a coronary artery pseudo aneurysm. A 37-year-old female presented with sudden dy...

We report a case of a non-pulsatile groin swelling in a 38 years old male drug addict without the typical clinical signs of an aneurysm. Ultrasound revealed a left femoral artery pseudo-aneurysm. He was surgically treated and the vessels were ligated without revascularisation.

DESCRIPTION A 69-year-old man was seen among outpatients after an episode of chest pain. He was pain-free and haemodynamically stable. His electrocardiogram was normal, but a pan-systolic murmur was noted on examination. He was referred for outpatient exercise treadmill testing and transthoracic echocardiography. The echocardiogram demonstrated an akinetic basal posterior wall of the left ventr...

Pseudo-aneurysm of the femoral artery is the most common arterial complication in drug injecting abusers. Scholars in vascular surgery have published debating statements regarding techniques of successful surgical management during last two decades. We present the results of simple arterial ligation in a series of 32 patients presenting with infected femoral pseudo-aneurysm. Most of the patient...

A 23-year-old woman presented with renal failure resulting from polycystic kidney disease (PKD) aggravated by tubulo-interstitial nephritis. Emergency haemodialysis was planned, and cannulation of the right subclavian vein was attempted, but failed. During this procedure, inadvertent arterial puncture occurred. Transient mild ischaemia of the right arm, and a transient Horner's syndrome were no...