PURPOSE To evaluate the incidence and types of complications encountered with use of a percutaneous suture-mediated closure device versus manual compression for arteriotomy closure in a retrospective case-controlled study. MATERIALS AND METHODS The authors identified 100 consecutive patients, 15 men and 85 women 21-85 years of age (mean, 50 years), between December 2000 and July 2001 in whom ...

We report a new procedure for embolization of hypogastric arteries simultaneously with aortoiliac stenting. Eight patients with aortoiliac (n = 6) and iliac (n = 2) aneurysms have been treated with this procedure. The technique involves the placement of a hook catheter near the hypogastric artery or in the sac, and the endoprosthesis insertion is done by using the same arteriotomy. The endopros...

We report on the surgical treatment of a patient in whom hydatid cysts inside the right pulmonary artery and multiple right lung involvement were detected. Since the right pneumonectomy carried a high risk of cyst rupture, and migration of the cysts to the opposite lung during ligation of the pulmonary artery, a two-stage surgical approach was scheduled. Hydatid cysts located at the proximal pu...

We report a case of a 79-year-old man presenting with left cervical carotid artery stenosis associated with non-bifurcating cervical carotid artery, a very rare congenital anatomical variation supplying different branches of the external carotid artery directly from a common trunk without a bifurcation. We performed carotid endarterectomy for this symptomatic carotid artery atherosclerotic sten...

Materials and methods 193, consecutive patients, 101 males, mean age 72 years, underwent CEA in our Institution from September 2007 to December 2009. All operations were only performed by two surgeons and all patients were monitored with TCO during general anesthesia. TCO parameters were always registered in: base-line, anesthesia induction, carotid clamping and declamping, wake up and estubati...

Recurrent Atherosclerotic Obstruction of the Internal Carotid Artery Five Years After Endarterectomy • A patient is described in whom an obstructive atherosclerotic plaque recurred in the cervical portion of the internal carotid artery five years after endarterectomy. The lesion appeared to be a new formation of atheromatous material contiguous to the site of the previous arteriotomy and result...