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Reference Work Entry In depth
Transcutaneous Oxygen Tension: Principles and Applications
Transcutaneous tissue oxygen tension (tcpO2) is a noninvasive diagnostic test for peripheral arterial insufficiency and other conditions in which the O2 level at the skin will provide indirect knowledge regarding...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Transcutaneous Oxygen Tension: Principles and Applications
Transcutaneous tissue oxygen tension (tcpO2) is a noninvasive diagnostic test for peripheral arterial insufficiency and other conditions in which the O2 level at the skin will provide indirect knowledge regarding...
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Surgical Reconstruction for Innominate Artery Occlusive Disease
The incidence of occlusive disease affecting the innominate artery is unknown because severe atherosclerotic lesions remain undetected by commonly employed screening modalities such as duplex ultrasound. Furth...
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Treatment of Type III Endoleak with an Aortouniiliac Stent Graft
The purpose of this study was to present a novel treatment method for repair of a type III endoleak due to separation of modular components of an AneuRx (Medtronic AVE, Sunnyvalle, CA) stent graft as a result ...
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Aortoenteric Fistula Development following Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Case Report
Aortoenteric fistulae (AEF) are now known to occur following endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), presumably because of mechanical forces of dislodged or migrating devices. We present an un...
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Anterior Retroperitoneal Lumbosacral Spine Exposure: Operative Technique and Results
We review our two-team operative technique and results of anterior retroperitoneal lumbosacral spine exposure for diskectomy, partial corpectomy, and spinal instrumentation. Seventy-two patients with lumbar sp...
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Major Lower Extremity Amputation in an Academic Vascular Center
Major lower extremity amputations continue to be performed despite an aggressive policy of revascularization. Factors leading to amputation were analyzed to determine whether a reduction in the limb loss rate ...
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Carotid Artery Patch Angioplasty: Impact and Outcome
Our study objective was to determine if patch angioplasty after carotid endarterectomy decreases the incidence of post-reconstruction technical defects and recurrent stenosis. This was a retrospective review o...
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Renal Artery Endarterectomy for Treatment of Renovascular Hypertension Combined with Infrarenal Aortic Reconstruction: Analysis of Surgical Results
From June 1995 to February 2000, 16 patients with renovascular hypertension had bilateral transaortic renal artery endarterectomy (RA TEA) combined with either infrarenal aortic aneurysm repair (8 patients) or...
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Single-Port Open-Scope Perforator Vein Surgery
As detailed throughout this volume, venous ulceration of the leg is a severe and debilitating outcome of chronic venous insufficiency. While it has been termed the post-thrombotic syndrome, it is now known tha...
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Venous Imaging for Reflux Using Duplex Ultrasonography
Several factors contribute to normal venous return of the lower extremities. The most important of these are calf muscle pump function, residual force from heart contractility, negative thoracic pressure and f...
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Transcutaneous Oxygen Tension: Principles and Applications
Beginning in the early 1970s, it became clear that empiric means of assessing foot perfusion were not adequate due to lack of sensitivity and specificity. Compelling research led to the discovery of a number o...
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Cost-effective Aortic Exposure: A Retroperitoneal Experience
-values > 0.12), mean IAA size (p= 0.41) or mean operative blood loss (p= 0.89). Incidence of postoperative complications was similar between the groups (11 in TP and 6 in RP; p= 0.29). However, a trend without s...
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Pathogenesis of Chronic Venous Insufficiency
Until pharmacologic methods are available to block the fundamental processes which lead to venous ulceration, a surgical approach will continue to be necessary. Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) occurs when t...
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Risk Factors in Chronic Venous Insufficiency
An estimated 10–35% of the adult population has some form of venous disease and chronic
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Surgery of the Saphenous Veins
The concept that advanced cutaneous changes of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) are the result of prior deep venous thrombosis continues to inhibit care of limbs with these stigmata. This is true despite the...
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Mycotic Aneurysms of the Tibioperoneal Arteries
instead of the usual gram-positive pathogens associated with intravenous drug injection. Vascular reconstruction can be accomplished; however, management of this complex problem should be individualized.
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Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair with Sequential Visceral Perfusion: A Technical Note
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Correction of Superficial Reflux
The observation by Myers1 40 years ago has stood the test of time and there is abundant evidence which shows that superficial venous reflux is an important component of the syndrome of chronic venous insufficienc...
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Subfascial Endoscopic Perforator Vein Surgery: the Open Technique
Several events occurring during the 1980s encouraged exploration of video-endoscopic perforator vein interruption during the 1990s. Among these was realization that all of the severe stigmata of the “post-phle...
