There is increasing evidence that damage to the vascular environment from oxidative stress plays a major role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis in addition to classical risk factors, such as age, arterial hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, smoking,...

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a common manifestation of systemic atherosclerosis that is associated with a significant limitation in limb function due to ischaemia and high risk of cardiovascular mortality. The lower limb manifestations of PAD ...

In recent years the importance of circulating bone marrow-derived cells in angiogenesis and collateral growth has been demonstrated in peripheral artery disease (PAD) and other ischaemic diseases. Although the mechanisms by which these cells exert their ...

Background: Periodic whole body acceleration in the spinal axis (pGz) applied by a motion platform is a novel treatment modality that induced endothelial nitric oxide release into the circulation of animals, healthy subjects and patients with inflammatory ...

Background: We evaluated the diagnostic yield of multidetector-row CT angiography and determined the clot burden within pulmonary vasculature as a measure of pulmonary embolism (PE) severity at different d-dimer levels and pretest clinical probabilities. ...

Currently, the combination of T1- and T2-weighted spin echo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences with MR venography is considered the best diagnostic tool for diagnosing cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), because they allow positive identification of ...

The case of a 24-year-old man with a rupture of the left common carotid artery and history of intravenous drug abuse is presented. Due to absence of a suitable autologous vein segment the carotid bulb was repaired with a human allograft patch.

We report on a 66-years-old oncological patient with a spontaneous dislocation of a portcatheter into the pulmonary artery. The catheter fragment had a loop formation, both ends were located in the proximal right segment arteries. The first attempt of a ...

Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) formation is a recognized complication of arterial trauma. A 63-year-old man with no known risk factors for atheroma and a history of a 20-year delay in the diagnosis and treatment of a traumatic AVF presented with right calf ...