Bypass surgery is often used in the treatment of large and giant aneurysms. Major complications that often arise during the perioperative period include cranial nerve palsy, ischemic complications, and hyperperfusion. However, there have been a few reports about late onset complications such as anastomotic aneurysms. In particular, anastomotic aneurysm after high flow bypasses has never been re...

Pelvic arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a rare condition mostly requiring a complex therapeutic strategy. The surgical approach is challenging and burdened by relatively high mortality and morbidity rates. No guidelines are available for the endovascular treatment of AVM because the literature is limited to small case series and case reports. We present a complex case of a pelvic AVM associa...

A man who had a history of coronary artery bypass grafting, insertion of a pacemaker, unstable angina and an ejection fraction of 0.26 was found to have a pulsatile mass on routine rectal examination. Iliac artery aneurysm was suspected. Preoperatively, a 3-dimensional reconstructed image (Fig. 1A) showed an aneurysm of the left common iliac artery, 7-cm in largest diameter, and another aneurys...

Chronic pancreatitis is known to cause vascular lesions, which produce gastrointestinal haemorrhage. Visceral vessel aneurysms are an unexpectedly common finding in arteriograms of patients with chronic pancreatitis. Gastrointestinal bleeding from these aneurysms carries a high mortality, making early diagnosis and treatment essential. Coeliac and mesenteric arteriography readily confirm the di...

Purpose: Non-respective treatment of the abdominal aortic aneurysm by proximal and distal ligation of the aneurysm sac (exclusion) combined with aortic bypass known as Debakey Procedure has been previously reported. A 2 year experience with 10 patients undergoing this procedure was reviewed. Methods: From 2010 to 2012, 10 patients of abdominal aortic aneurysm underwent repair with the retroperi...

This experimental study was performed to evaluate the possibility that the site per se of infarction or ventricular aneurysm after acute myocardial infarction had a unique important role in left ventricular function. Acute myocardial infarction and ventricular aneurysm were made in either the anterior or the inferior wall of the left ventricle using 24 dogs. Infarction was made by the multiple ...

Introduction Extracranial vertebral artery aneurysm (EVAA) and extrapleural haematoma (EH) are rare clinical findings most often associated with blunt or penetrating trauma. However, EVAA rupture can be complicated by development of a large EH. Report A 50 year old man underwent an emergency thrombectomy followed by graft reconstruction of an aorto-bi-femoral bypass. The post-operative course...

One-hundred-and-fifty-two patients who underwent surgery for intracranial aneurysm were studied to determine the incidence of postoperative epilepsy in relation to the site of the aneurysm and the type of surgical approach. The overall incidence of epilepsy was 22%. Of the 116 patients treated by the intracranial approach 27.5% developed epilepsy, in contrast with only 5% of the 36 patients who...