Major and long-awaited trials comparing carotid endarterectomy (CEA) with carotid stenting (CAS) were published in recent years. Both, ICSS and CREST, documented a higher rate of periprocedural stroke and death in CAS, in particular in elderly patients, ...

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a multicausal disease which tends to recur. Recurrence can be prevented by anticoagulant treatment albeit at the cost of bleeding. Deciding on the optimal duration of anticoagulation is based on balancing the risk of ...

Background: Nailfold capillaroscopy (NVC) is a diagnostic tool particularly useful in the differential diagnosis of rheumatic and connective tissue diseases. Although successfully applied since many years, little is known about prevalence and distribution ...

Background: To discuss the technique of 64-slice spiral CT subtraction angiography (64-SCTSA) in head and neck, and evaluate its clinical application. Patients and methods: 84 patients suspected of head-neck vascular diseases were examined with 64-SCTSA. ...

Background: To evaluate the effect of statins on the annual expansion rate (ER) of small infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). Patients and methods: All patients under regular surveillance for small AAA between January 2000 and September 2007, in ...

Background: Erythromelalgia (EM) incidence has not been well studied and there are only two studies published on this subject as far as we know. The aims are to study the incidence of this rare condition in the south of Sweden, to report the clinical ...

Background: Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affecting the femoropopliteal artery is treated by endovascular interventions [2, 5, 13] increasingly. Aim of the study was to evaluate mid-term efficacy and patency of long stents in the superficial femoral and ...

Primary angiosarcoma of the spleen is a very rare but very aggressive soft tissue sarcoma due to early dissemination. The outcome of this disease is typically dismal with a mean survival of one to two years. However, our here presented case remained ...

While abdominal aortic aneurysms are quite common, visceral aneurysms are a seldomly diagnosed vascular pathology. Aneurysms of renal arteries, abdominal aorta and iliac arteries seem to be very rare. We present a patient after renal transplantation with ...

Gonadal vein thrombosis is a rare but well recognized entity which predominantly occurs in the post partum period. It is also associated with gynecological malignancies, cesarean deliveries, abortions, hypercoagulability and pelvic inflammatory disease. ...