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In a period of endovascular surgery, there have been several, epoch-making changes in the vascular surgery particularly during the past year. Among them, some reports make this year a watershed...
Lower extremity peripheral arterial occlusive disease poses a unique challenge to traditional angioplasty based endovascular therapies. The diffuse nature of lower extremity atherosclerotic disease, the presence of chronic total occlusions,...
The venous wall remodeling of a vein graft that's used in arterial bypass is the results of extensive degeneration of the extracellular matrix, and this is induced by hypertensive hemodynamic...
Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) of combined abdominal and iliac aneurysm requires exclusion of the hypogastric artery for prevention of endoleak. However, exclusion of the hypogastric artery is often associated with...
PURPOSE: The duplex scan is recommended for initial assessment of carotid artery disease as a non-invasive diagnostic method. However, the guidelines for diagnosis of carotid stenosis are based on Western...
Some representative operative techniques have been introduced for treating subclavian artery stenosis or occlusion: carotid-subclavian bypass, carotid-subclavian interposition and axillo-axillary bypass. But the cases of carotid-axillary bypass are rare and...
PURPOSE: We wanted to define the appropriate treatment modalities for Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus (TASC) II C and D femoro-popliteal lesions. So we compared the primary patency rate and several clinical...
PURPOSE: Endovenous laser treatment (EVLT) for varicose vein has been shown to be an effective method of treatment. But, after EVLT, recurrence due to recanalization of the great saphenous vein...
PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to assess the clinical benefits of endovascular treatment for lower extremity deep vein thrombosis. Particularly, we wanted to define the factors that affect...