The femoral head receives the majority of its blood supply via branches of the medial femoral circumflex artery, whose course runs across the piriformis fossa and along the superior aspect of the femoral neck. Cadaveric studies have demonstrated damage to the medial femoral circumflex artery in cases where the piriformis fossa was the entry point for intramedullary nailing. Although well recogn...

INTRODUCTION Textbook representations of the genicular arterial anastomosis show a large direct communication between the descending branch of the lateral circumflex femoral artery (DBLCFA) and a genicular branch of the popliteal artery but this is not compatible with clinical experience. The aim of this study was to determine whether the arterial anastomosis at the knee is sufficient, in the e...

BACKGROUND Femoral skeletal traction assists in the reduction and transient stabilization of pelvic, acetabular, hip, and femoral fractures when splinting is ineffective. Traditional teaching has recommended a medial entry site for insertion of the traction pin in order to minimize injury to the femoral artery as it passes through Hunter's canal. The present anatomical study evaluates the risk ...

Objective: A case of carotid artery stent placement performed by exposing and directly puncturing the femoral artery through a small surgical incision is reported. Case Presentations: In this patient, who had undergone multiple bypass surgeries for arteriosclerosis obliterans of the bilateral lower extremities, the inguinal region was scarred and atrophied, and percutaneous puncturing of the fe...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Treatment of acute myocardial infarction by percutaneous coronary intervention with stenting leads to excellent immediate clinical results and a good prognosis. The aim of this study was to compare in this selected population the safety and effectiveness of radial artery access versus femoral artery access. PATIENTS AND METHOD Between May 2001 and June 2003, 162 con...

A clinical case of successful treatment a patient with atherosclerotic peripheral artery disease and clinically significant lesion the coronary carotid arteries. Patients underwent multi-stage surgical treatment. The first stage performed endovascular left internal artery, second — myocardial revascularization, third iliac arteries, fourth rotational atherectomy stenting right superficial femor...

Physical inactivity is a potent stimulus for vascular remodeling, leading to a marked decrease in conduit artery diameter. However, little is known about the impact of physical inactivity on artery wall thickness or wall:lumen ratio or the potential of exercise countermeasures to modify artery wall thickness. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of 60 days of bed rest, with or wit...

B-mode ultrasound is increasingly used in clinical research to study the atherosclerotic process in the carotid arteries. The present investigation evaluated the feasibility of measuring intima-media thickness in the common femoral artery and assessed whether such measurement might provide further information on the extent of the atherosclerotic process in patients with familial hypercholestero...

32 Introduction and objective. Treatment of acute myocardial infarction by percutaneous coronary intervention with stenting leads to excellent immediate clinical results and a good prognosis. The aim of this study was to compare in this selected population the safety and effectiveness of radial artery access versus femoral artery access. Patients and method. Between May 2001 and June 2003, 162 ...

We present the case of a 57-year-old man who developed retroperitoneal hemorrhage due to unintentional arterial puncture during femoral artery cannulation for Guglielmi detachable coil embolization. On emergence from anesthesia, he developed severe hypotension. Computed tomographic angiogram of the abdomen showed retroperitoneal hematomas around the urinary bladder, liver, and spleen. Because f...