Integration of digital angiographic systems into operating rooms has produced opportunities for new treatments and offers a superior solution for interdisciplinary work among surgeons, cardiologists, and radiologists. However, the context of use differs radically from that in the traditional radiologic examination room; the environment, users, and procedures are all different. Integration of imaging methods into the operating room can be more successful if special operating room conditions are taken into account by medical systems manufacturers.
This study, while confirming significant risk for asymptomatic patients with critical stenosis or echolucent plaque, demonstrates the importance of contralateral disease and the absence of orderly progression from minimal disease through high-grade stenosis to symptomatic cerebral ischemia. TIA and stroke commonly occur in association with abrupt, unpredictable, quantum changes in carotid artery disease.
This case report gives the long-term outcome of a patient undergoing reconstruction of the iliac vein with internal jugular vein interposition graft following trauma. A 51-year- old woman sustained a gunshot wound at the confluence of the right common, internal, and external iliac veins as well as injuries to the small and large bowel. The internal iliac vein was ligated and the external and common iliac vein was reconstructed with inter position internal jugular vein graft. The internal jugular vein was chosen because of the fecal contamination due to the enteric injuries and the equivalent size and endothelial ized surface of the conduit. The internal jugular vein interposition graft has maintained long-term patency. The patient has been followed for six years with no development of leg swelling or chronic venous valvular insufficiency.
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