The clinical relevance of estrogen’s multiple acute and more delayed effects on vascular wall structure and function is incompletely understood. This review attempts to reevaluate epidemiological findings and clinical studies concerning the vascular ...

Background: Chronic wounds are an everyday problem in general medicine. Likewise, their persistence, painfulness and frequency of relapse are everyday problems which strain the stamina of patients and doctors to the point of desperation. Over recent years,...

Background: Preliminary investigation done in 100 healthy adults and 20 healthy children had shown that the interpretation of significance of changes in capillary morphology need to be corrected, since capillary changes previously considered to be ...

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the clinical utility of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) as a screening method for the detection of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). Patients and methods: Each patient who was referred to the ...

Background: It has been suggested that limb circulation may be disturbed in patients with muscle cramps due to leg venous hypertension. The aim of this study was to examine the incidence and characteristics of muscle cramps from venous insufficiency. ...

Acute interruption of circulation in the distal fingers can be both expression of an embolic event as well as the first manifestation of a vasculitis or collagenosis. The search for its cause is frequently difficult. In many cases a specialized analysis ...

A patient who had no evidence of atherosclerotic disease and had never been hypertensive, presented with symptoms usually associated with gallstone disease. A large intraluminal calcification in the juxtarenal aorta was found to be the probable cause of ...

The treatment modalities for renal artery aneurysm have changed. The aim in the presented case was to evaluate the endovascular therapy in a 52-year-old woman (with hematuria as the only symptom) with a saccular aneurysm at the first bifurcation of the ...

We report on three patients with a symtomatic inguinal mass as a late complication of repetitive arthroplastic hip surgery. In one case, there was a false aneurysm and in two cases a so-called “synovial cyst”. A synovial cyst is usually an enlarged ...

We describe the case of a young woman who developed fatal pulmonary embolism during thrombolytic therapy of a deep pelvic and leg vein thrombosis, despite the insertion of a temporary vena cava filter. So the opinion that the insertion of inferior vena ...

Intermittent claudication (IC) due to arterial occlusive disease was first diagnosed by the French veterinary surgeon Jean-François Bouley jeune in a horse drawing a cabriolet in the streets of Paris as early as 1831. The animal was repeatedly exercised ...