BACKGROUND Rapidly restoring perfusion to injured extremities is one of the primary missions of forward military surgical teams. The austere setting, limited resources, and grossly contaminated nature of wounds encountered complicates early definitive repair of complex combat vascular injuries. Temporary vascular shunting of these injuries in the forward area facilitates rapid restoration of pe...

BACKGROUND Activation of neutrophil adhesion molecules and subsequent neutrophil adhesion to vascular endothelium are key events initiating inflammatory organ dysfunction after cardiopulmonary bypass and ischemic reperfusion. OBJECTIVES We sought to characterize neutrophil integrin CD11b and L-selectin activation associated with coronary artery bypass graft surgery and to determine whether ne...

Dobutamine stress echocardiography is an accurate method for the diagnosis and localization of vascular compromise in patients evaluated after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The test provides useful data for selection of patients for whom coronary angiography may be indicated.

Peripheral artery disease affects approximately 20% of individuals over the age 70 and is particularly prevalent among smokers diabetics. The increasing global prevalence metabolic syndrome, diabetes, smoking suggests a further rise in its occurrence. treatment this incurs significant economic costs, which are projected to continue growing. This associated with high rates disability, morbidity,...

Background: Bypass surgery for atherosclerosis is confronted with the absence of endothelial cells in the lumen of vascular prosthesis in humans. This imposes a risk of thrombosis. New biomaterials try to minimize surface

Gastric infarction is an extremely rare occurrence owing to the stomach's extensive vascular supply. We report an unusual case of gastric infarction following gastric bypass surgery. We describe the imaging findings and discuss possible causes of this condition.

The authors describe treatment possibility for AAA with renal arteries arising from aneurysmal sac in high operating risk patients. They combined endovascular stent-grafting for aneurysmal sac exclusion and classical vascular surgical iliacrenal bypass for revascularisation of excluded renal arteries.

The shape of a bypass graft plays an important role on its efficacy. Here, we investigated flow through two vascular graft designs-with and without cuff at the anastomosis. We conducted Digital Particle Image Velocimetry (DPIV) measurements to obtain the flow field information through these vascular grafts. Two pulsatile flow waveforms corresponding to cardiac cycles during the rest and the exc...

OBJECTIVE To share our experience highlighting the additional use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in cases other than the conventional ischemic, congenital and valvular heart diseases. METHODOLOGY All patients undergoing non-traditional cardiac surgery utilizing the cardiopulmonary bypass during a period from 1999 to 2009 reviewed. Their preoperative presentation, operative strategy and immed...