Football and ankle soft tissue injuries are common occurrences. However, traumatic peroneal false aneurysm is quite a rare entity with only a handful of cases reported in the literature. A case of traumatic false aneurysm of the distal peroneal artery is described in which an anatomic anomaly of the distal peroneal artery crossing the ankle joint may have been a predisposing factor. A technique...

False aneurysm is a rare cause of non-union of a fracture. Reports have recently been published by Bassett and Houck (1964), Dameron (1964) and Meyer and Slager (1964), in which injury to the arteria profunda femoris or its branches complicated the insertion of screws across the femoral shaft and resulted in the development of false aneurysm. The case reported here complicated intramedullary na...

vessels that are relatively inaccessible, wi thout resorting to major surgery. However , in the case of a false aneurysm of the thyrocervical trunk, would coil embolisation not be a more appropriate method for percutaneous endovascular control? Finally, the authors suggest that the residual haematoma in a false aneurysm would not be resorbed after stent control. What evidence do they have for t...

Annular subvalvular left ventricular aneurysm was first reported in 1962. This type of aneurysm usually arises from the annular subaortic or submitral region of the left ventricle. It should be differentiated from the left ventricular false aneurysm, which was caused by myocardial necrosis. The etiology of subvalvular aneurysm remains unclear. We have presented a case of annular submitral left ...

Over a seven year period from 1982 to 1989,3337 conduits were created in 3137 patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) as access for chronic dialysis. These included 2690 side-to-side arteriovenous fistulae (A VF), 168 end-to-side A VFs, 10 autogenous vein grafts, 51 homogenous frozen vein grafts, 109 polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) grafts, 209 emergency external arteriovenous shunts, t...

Pulmonary vascular injury is a rare but life-threatening complication of Swan-Ganz catheterization. We report an 82-year old patient who underwent right heart catheterization by a balloon-tipped catheter because of suspected pulmonary hypertension. After deflation of the catheter in the wedge position, hemoptoe appeared associated with acute respiratory insufficiency requiring respiratory suppo...

A 71-year-old woman underwent a total right knee replacement for a severe arthritis. Eight days after the operation, she presented an oedema of the right leg. Moreover, the foot remained well perfused with palpable pedal pulse. A colour duplex examination was performed for the suspicion of a phlebitis. There was no venous thrombosis, but the popliteal vein was collapsed by a 55×40 mm false aneu...

OBJECTIVES We sought to demonstrate the long-term natural course of descending aorta dilation after acute aortic dissection (AD) and identify early predictors for late aneurysmal change. BACKGROUND Aneurysmal dilation of the aorta is a critical late complication in AD patients. METHODS Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) was performed during the acute phase in 100 AD patients, compri...

A 68 year old man was referred to the cardiology outpatient department for investigation of deteriorating angina control. Three years earlier he had sustained an inferoposterior myocardial infarction complicated only by a transient episode of hypotension and bradycardia. Clinical examination was unremarkable apart from the finding of a soft systolic murmur at the apex and axilla. Investigations...