No abstract available.
Tibia*

PURPOSE: There is a traditional belief that the oriental squatting position could be harmful to a femoral artery-graft anastomosis. Should patients be advised not to squat after a femoral artery bypass-graft? We studied the morphological changes during squatting to determine if there were any negative effects on the anastomosis configuration. METHOD: For a fluoroscopic marker, after the anastomosis at least five 2 mm Hemo-clips(R) (Telefix, Inc., US) with an interval of 1 mm, were left along the PTFE graft and native artery in eight patients. Five patients (10 limbs) were evaluated by fluoroscopy at 2 weeks post surgery. X-rays were taken serially for lateral views of the hip joint supine, in hip flexion (90 degrees) and in the knee to chest position, which simulated squatting. The angle of the graft-artery at each position was measured in the PACS computer screen. RESULT: The angle for each position in the 10 limbs was studied. The mean angle changed from supine to the knee-chest position and was 22.2 degrees. The larger angle between the abdominal wall and the graft was reduced in all cases, which means that the shape of the graft-artery became T-shaped. CONCLUSION: The configuration of the graft-artery after squatting became T-shaped, which was contrary to our belief that the angle would decrease between the abdominal wall and the graft. There is no evidence that this configuration would have a negative influence on the graft patency.
Abdominal Wall ; Arteries ; Extremities ; Femoral Artery ; Fluoroscopy ; Hip ; Hip Joint ; Humans ; Knee ; Knee-Chest Position ; Polytetrafluoroethylene ; Thorax ; Transplants

The obturator bypass operation is not a common procedure. In 1963, Shaw and Baue first described performing bypass surgery through the obturator foramen as a technique to deal with infected arterial prostheses in the groin. This operation has been used to reconstruct patients with groin infection, irradiation ulcer, mycotic aneurysm, trauma and excessive scar tissue in the femoral region. We experienced one case of transobturator foramen bypass surgery from a Dacron iliac limb to the popliteal artery.
Aneurysm, Infected ; Cicatrix ; Extremities ; Groin ; Humans ; Polyethylene Terephthalates ; Popliteal Artery ; Prostheses and Implants ; Ulcer

An inferior vena cava (IVC) filter is a useful treatment to prevent a pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with DVT. Since the introduction of IVC filters more than 30 years ago, there has been a steady improvement in the design, ease and safety of the delivery system. The use of a temporary filter has also increased as performing thrombolysis and thrombectomy has increased. Today all of the commonly used filters can be placed via a peripheral vein by using the standard percutaneous Seldinger (Ed note: check the spelling) technique. However this typically requires fluoroscopy, intravenous contrast agents, radiation exposure and transport of the patient to the interventional or operating suite. As the multiple trauma injured or critically-ill intensive care unit patients often require inotropic and ventilator support, transporting these patients to these facilities can be hazardous. The following report describes two cases of VTE patients who underwent percutaneous placement of an IVC filter with using duplex ultrasound guidance. Identification of the renal vein and artery is important to decide the infrarenal level. The first case was an 84 years female with right ilio-femoral DVT and pulmonary embolism. To prevent recurrence of PE, we decided to insert an IVC filter. The second case was a 47 years female with right femoral DVT together with left pulmonary embolism and infarction. She also had thrombocytopenia, which is a contraindication for anticoagulation. IVC filter insertion can be safely performed under ultrasound guidance. This technique will reduce the risk and complexity of inserting an IVC filter in selected multiple injured trauma patients.
Arteries ; Contrast Media ; Female ; Fluoroscopy ; Humans ; Infarction ; Intensive Care Units ; Multiple Trauma ; Pulmonary Embolism ; Recurrence ; Renal Veins ; Thrombectomy ; Thrombocytopenia ; Veins ; Vena Cava Filters ; Vena Cava, Inferior ; Ventilators, Mechanical

PURPOSE: Sometimes, there are endograft shortenings during endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). They are associated with various changes of endograft position in a 3-dimensional (3D) space. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of central luminal line (CLL) measurements and understand the degree of endograft shortenings. METHODS: Preoperative 3D computed tomographic (CT) scans were evaluated for every EVAR case. Preoperative working lengths were measured with computerized software that allowed for centerline measurements on 3D reconstructions based on CT data. We compared preoperative CLL measurements and used the endograft length. In this study, the ipsilateral limb length comparisons were excluded, because the overlapped stent-graft length can influence the total ipsilateral limb length. Hence, only the contralateral limb lengths were compared with each other. RESULTS: Preoperative contralateral lengths in the 9 limbs were studied. There was no large difference (below 10 mm) in almost all cases except for one (15 mm shortening), which was very tortuous aortoiliac anatomy. The mean difference between preoperative CLL measurements and the used stent-graft length was 4.48 mm. CONCLUSION: Although these shortenings can be overcome with the deployment technique, the operator should prepare various length extensions in tortuous anatomy.
Aneurysm ; Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal ; Extremities ; Phenobarbital

A temporary balloon occlusion of internal carotid artery (ICA) was performed in 3 patients for carotid artery endarterectomy and 1 patient require sacrifice ICA with neck malignancy. EEG monitoring and neurologic evaluation was done during the test. In one patient who has bilateral ICA stenosis more than 95% shows slurred speech and aphasia during test. Another 3 patients shows no clinical change during test, and operation was done without shunt. There were no postoperative neurologic complication. We believe that preoperative balloon occlusion of ICA provide another helpful criteria to decide using shunt. But it needs another hemodynamic analysis tool according to other's report.
Aphasia ; Balloon Occlusion ; Carotid Arteries* ; Carotid Artery, Internal ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Electroencephalography ; Endarterectomy ; Hemodynamics ; Humans ; Neck

No abstract available.
Adenoids* ; Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic*

Proton magnetic rcsonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) has demontrated its abilities to detect an increase of choline containing compounds (Cho) in various brain tumors and prostatic cancer tissues. Based on preclinical works done by other authors using multinuclei MRS, it is reasonable to assume malignant breast tumors will have elevated level of Cho compared to that of normal tissues and benign breast lesions. Several challenges must be met to obtain clinically useful 1H breast spectrum. Good water and fat suppression, Bo homogeneity are required to detect low level metabolic signals like choline if any. In this study, we investigated the clinical utility of 1H MRS with simultaneous suppression of water and fat signals, using breast imaging surface coil for evaluating breast cancer with small lesions. All studies were performed using a GE signa MRI unit (1.5 T, Ver 5.5) and 2-channel breast coil (GE). Water suppression was achieved by chemical selective saturation, and fat signal was attenuated using inversion recovery sequence. Spectroscopic data were acquired with PRESS sequence. Twenty-three patients, age 14-75, were examined. Eleven of these patients presented with invasive ductal carcinoma. The remaining patients presented with benign processes including fibroadenoma, fibrocystic change, galactocele, adenosis, ductal ectasia and dystrophic calcification. The size of lesions were variable (8-90 mm in diameter). Choline at 3.25 ppm was visible in the spectra of all cancer patients, while invisible in the spectra of all benign lesions except a lesion of dystrophic calcification. We concluded that in vivo detection of choline containing compounds in breast carcinomas using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy demonstrated its potential as a noninvasive tool for differential diagnosis of malignant and benign breast lesions larger than 7 mm in diameter.
Brain Neoplasms ; Breast Diseases* ; Breast Neoplasms ; Breast* ; Carcinoma, Ductal ; Choline ; Diagnosis, Differential* ; Dilatation, Pathologic ; Fibroadenoma ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ; Prostatic Neoplasms ; Protons* ; Spectrum Analysis ; Water

Pulmonary involvement is more common in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) than in any other connective tissue disease, and more than half of patients with SLE suffer from respiratory dysfunction during the course of their illness. Although sepsis and renal disease are the most common causes of death in SLE, lung disease is the predominant manifestation and is an indicator of overall prognosis. Respiratory disease may be due to direct involvement of the lung or as a secondary consequence of the effect of the disease on other organ systems.
Cause of Death ; Connective Tissue Diseases ; Humans ; Lung ; Lung Diseases ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic* ; Prognosis ; Sepsis

PURPOSE: Hybrid procedure in lower extremity arterial disease is composed of open bypass and endovascular treatment. For proximal inflow bypass operations for distal lesions used to be performed 1 or 2 weeks after endovascular therapy. Since Aug 2005, all hybrid operations have been performed simultaneously in the operation room in our center. In this study, we compared the results of the staged hybrid operations with those of simultaneous procedures. METHODS: From Jan 1999 to Dec 2009, 115 endovascular treatments and 139 bypass operations were performed. 44 bypasses were performed 1 day to 14 days after angioplasty in inflow lesions (group I) and 95 bypasses were performed simultaneously in the operation room with mobile fluoroscopy (group II). In both groups, inflow procedures included 3 femoral balloon angioplasties, 3 femoral stents, 24 iliac balloon angioplasties and 85 iliac stents. Bypass operations were composed of 39 femorofemoral and 102 infrainguinal bypasses including 60 femoropopliteal and 42 other bypasses. RESULTS: The 3-year patency rate of bypass graft is 71.5%. There is no difference in either group. But in endovascular treatment lesion, the 3-year patency rate is 80% and that of the simultaneous group is higher than that of the staged group (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: Hybrid operation is a less invasive therapy for revascularization in multilevel peripheral arterial occlusive disease. With development of endovascular therapy, simultaneous hybrid operations become more efficient.
Angioplasty ; Arterial Occlusive Diseases ; Chimera ; Fluoroscopy ; Lower Extremity ; Stents ; Transplants