Endovascular Aortic Repair With the E-Tegra Device: Preliminary Outcomes From a Multicenter National Registry.

Purpose: Endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) is currently expanding its feasibility thanks to design innovations, but hostile proximal necks and narrow iliac arteries are still a constraint, as expressed by the Instructions for Use (IFU) of most devices. Our aim is to report the preliminary results of the E-Tegra endograft in infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) performed in 15 high-volume centers.

Materials And Methods: The e-Tegra Italian endoGraft REgistry (TIGRE) is a prospectively maintained database of consecutive EVAR with the E-Tegra stent-graft across 15 participating centers between March 2021 and March 2023.

Hybrid management of iliac injury during thoracic endovascular aortic repair: A case report.

Thoracic endovascular aortic repair is nowadays the preferred option to manage descending thoracic aorta diseases. However, despite feasibility and safety of the procedures, several complications may occur. We report the case of an 83-year-old female patient with inadvertent iliac rupture occurred during thoracic endovascular aortic repair.

Autologous Bone Marrow Stem Cells in Patients With Critical Limb Ischaemia not Eligible for Revascularization: A Single Centre Experience.

We evaluated the use of autologus bone marrow stem cells transplantation in patients with critical limb ischaemia (CLI) not eligible for revascularization. Eighty consecutive patients candidate to amputation were enrolled in a single-centre retrospective study. The primary endpoint was defined as the amputation-free rate from stem cells transplantation.

Challenges and Pitfalls in CT-Angiography Evaluation of Carotid Bulb Stenosis: Is It Time for a Reappraisal?

We aimed to perform an anatomical evaluation of the carotid bulb using CT-angiography, implement a new reliable index for carotid stenosis quantification and to assess the accuracy of relationship between NASCET and ECST methods in a large adult population. The cross-sectional areas of the healthy carotid at five levels were measured by two experienced radiologists. A regression analysis was performed in order to quantify the relationship between the areas of the carotid bulb at different carotid bulbar level.

Chronic abdominal aortic rupture mimicking femoral neuropathy.

Chronic-contained rupture of an aortic aneurysm is a rare subset of ruptured aneurysms. The presentation is unusual, and the diagnosis is frequently delayed. Here, we describe a case of contained rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm that presented with signs and symptoms of femoral neuropathy.

CT angiography-based radiomics as a tool for carotid plaque characterization: a pilot study.

Purposes: Radiomics is a quantitative method able to analyze a high-throughput extraction of minable imaging features. Herein, we aim to develop a CT angiography-based radiomics analysis and machine learning model for carotid plaques to discriminate vulnerable from no vulnerable plaques.

Materials And Methods: Thirty consecutive patients with carotid atherosclerosis were enrolled in this pilot study.

Combined Treatment With Carotid Endoarterectomy and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Single-Institutional Experience in 222 Patients.

Introduction: Carotid atherosclerotic disease is a known independent risk factor of post operative stroke after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The best management of concomitant coronary artery disease and carotid artery disease remains debated. Current strategies include simultaneous carotid endoarterectomy (CEA) and CABG, staged CEA followed by CABG, staged CABG followed by CEA, staged transfemoral carotid artery stenting (TF-CAS) followed by CABG, simultaneous TF-CAS and CABG and transcarotid artery stenting.

Atherosclerotic Plaque Fissuration and Clinical Outcomes in Pre-Diabetics vs. Normoglycemics Patients Affected by Asymptomatic Significant Carotid Artery Stenosis at 2 Years of Follow-Up: Role of microRNAs Modulation: The ATIMIR Study.

Atherosclerotic plaque instability and rupture in patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis (ACAS) is a leading cause of major adverse cardiac events (MACE). This could be mainly evidenced in patients with pre-diabetes. Indeed, the altered glucose homeostasis and insulin resistance could cause over-inflammation of atherosclerotic plaque, favoring its conversion to unstable phenotype with rupture and MACE.

Intramural haematoma of the thoracic aorta: A case series.

We reported four cases of intramural haematoma of the descending thoracic aorta. Four patients, aged 55-82 years, hypertensive, were transferred from the emergency room of other hospitals due to the appearance of epigastric pain and left thorax pain. All patients underwent computed tomography angiography reporting the presence of intramural haematoma.

Spontaneous rectus sheath hematoma: The utility of CT angiography.

We described the utility of computed tomography (CT) angiography in detection of bleeding vessels for a rapid percutaneous arterial embolization of the spontaneous rectus sheath hematoma. A 70-year-old woman comes to our attention with acute abdominal pain and a low hemoglobin level. An unenhanced CT was performed demonstrating a large rectus sheath hematoma.

Incidental Finding of Dual Ectopic Thyroid on Computed Tomography Angiography.

The presence of simultaneous two ectopic foci of thyroid tissue (dual ectopic thyroid) is rare, and few cases have been reported in the literature. The ectopic thyroid tissue is an extremely uncommon embryological aberration due to the alterations occurring during the embryological development with incomplete migration of thyroid precursors. Commonly ectopic thyroid tissue is a midline structures, but the lateral location is possible but very rare.

Endovascular treatment of persistent sciatic artery aneurysm with the multilayer stent.

Purpose: To describe the successful management of a symptomatic persistent sciatic artery (PSA) aneurysm using the Multilayer Aneurysm Repair System (MARS).

Case Report: A 50-year-old man with history of smoking, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia suddenly developed pain in the buttock radiating to the left lower limb, mimicking sciatica. The ∼57×54-mm incomplete type PSA aneurysm was treated with two 14×80- and 14×60-mm MARS devices through a surgical left axillary artery access.

Lethal nature of ischemic gastropathy: a case report of celiomesenteric vascular insufficiency.

Celiomesenteric ischemia has an insidious onset and the non-specific symptoms are often misdiagnosed as cholecystitis or peptic ulcer disease with a consequential delay between the onset of symptoms and radiological evidence of vascular occlusive disease. A elderly man was hospitalized after a 2-3 week history of acute abdominal pain, frequent vomiting, and chronic diarrhea associated with bloody stools. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed a cobblestone gastric pattern with multiple ulcerated areas and the specimens indicated focal full thickness coagulative necrosis of the mucosa.

Pseudoaneurysm after patch-free carotid bifurcation endarterectomy: a case report.

The purpose of this report is to present the case of a 59-year-old man affected by multivessel coronary artery disease and sterile pseudoaneurysm of the right carotid bifurcation presenting as a pulsating neck mass 1 month after patch-free carotid endarterectomy. The surgical approach included median sternotomy and incision parallel to the anterior margin of the right sternocleidomastoid muscle. The pseudoaneurysm was excised after control of the brachiocefalic trunk and insertion of a Pruit-Inahara shunt, and the carotid vessels were directly sutured without using any prosthetic or autologous material.

Evaluation of less invasive method for saphenous vein harvest in patients with type II diabetes.

Background: Diabetes mellitus is an established risk factor for leg wound healing complications after great saphenous vein harvest. Leg healing complications occur in 1-25% of coronary artery bypass graft patients, and are often underestimated.

Patients And Methods: The records of 230 patients enrolled in a prospective trial to evaluate a minimally invasive approach compared with conventional longitudinal harvest were reviewed.

Open clip-free radial artery harvesting with the harmonic shears.

Background: The Ultracision Harmonic Scalpel is associated with several advantages in radial artery (RA) harvesting. It allows fewer hemostatic clips to close the collateral branches, less thermal injury of the conduit, and reduced time of harvesting in comparison with the conventional RA harvesting technique with electrocautery and hemostatic clips. We recently started open RA harvesting with the harmonic shears (HSH).

Thoracic radiation therapy and suitability of internal thoracic arteries for myocardial revascularization.

Introduction And Background: Myocardial revascularization using internal thoracic arteries (ITAs) has been associated with superior clinical outcome. This study addresses the question of whether internal mammary arteries are unsuitable for grafting due to radiation-based damage in patients with history of thoracic radiation therapy. We review our experience in this subset of surgical candidates.

Intravascular ultrasound in the endovascular management of atherosclerotic peripheral occlusive disease.

This study is a retrospective analysis of the impact of intravascular ultrasound in addiction to conventional angiography in 36 patients with 55 stenotic peripheral arterial lesions treated with angioplasty and/or stenting. Before treatment, intravascular ultrasound imaging showed that the vessel diameter was underestimated with angiography in 6 cases. The correlation index between angiography and intravascular ultrasound measurements, however, was significant in 27 arterial lesions.

[Diverticular disease: complications and treatment].

This study reports on 10 years of experience in observing diverticular disease. The study considers 77 patients, 41 males and 36 females, aged from 50 to 88 years (mean age: 70 years), observed from January 1991 to December 2001. Sixty-two patients were admitted from the Accident and Emergency Unit and 15 were elected patients.

Benign multicystic mesothelioma of the peritoneum: a case report.

The aim of this study is to report the experience of a case of benign multicystic mesothelioma of the peritoneum presented with acute appendicitis symptomatology. A 28 years old man with right lower and upper abdominal pain was admitted into hospital. Because of the clinical picture, the symptomatology and the leukocytosis a diagnosis of acute appendicitis was made and the patient underwent appendicectomy according to Mc Burney.