Inflammatory Response in Open and Endovascular Treatment
2006 2007 Variable Open repair (%) TEVAR RR 95 % CI p value Open repair (%) TEVAR (%) RR 95 % CI p value In-hospital mortality 9.79 1.16 %…
Thromboangiitis Obliterans
Fig. 12.1 Intimal thickening with preservation of the medial layer. Chronic inflammatory process with recanalization (Courtesy of the Study Group in Correlation Anatomy-Clinic PUCCAMP) Fig. 12.2 Acute phase with thrombosis…
Endovascular Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Current Approaches and New Devices
Fig. 10.1 Anaconda® stent Endoprótese Aorfix® AORFIXTM has the most advanced stent technology on the market [9]. It is manufactured by Lombard Medical and marketed in Europe and other countries…
Fifteen Years of ‘No-Touch’ Saphenous Vein Harvesting in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: What Have We Learned?
Fig. 34.1 Structure of human saphenous vein. (Left) Whole transverse section of non-distended human saphenous vein (SV) where the intima, surrounding the lumen (L) is thrown into folds. (Right) High…
Surgical Treatment of Aortic Aneurysm in Patients with Aortitis
(1) Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK (2) Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Center for Aortic Disease, Scott & White Clinic, Texas A &…
Mesenteric Vasculitis
Classification of vasculitis Large-vessel vasculitis Takayasu arteritis Giant cell arteritis Medium-sized-vessel vasculitis Poliarteritis nodosa Kawasaki disease Primary granulomatous central nervous system vasculitis Small-vessel vasculitis Antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody Wegener’s granulomatosis Churg-Strauss…
Management of Aneurysms in Takayasu’s Arteritis
Fig. 23.1 Juzenkai Zasshi, vol. 50, 1908, photograph courtesy of the Collections of the Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Epidemiology TA is an uncommon chronic inflammatory vasculitis, with an incidence…
Platelets and Coronary Artery Disease
Fig. 35.1 Platelets induce chemotactic, adhesive, and proteolytic properties of endothelial cells However, platelet IL-1β not only modifies endothelial release of chemotactic proteins, but it also has the potential to…
Heart Valve Surgery and the Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Author Year Ref. Brain Vasc Eye Spleen Heart Intestinal Kidney P. valve No TE Death FU Alvarez-Blanco A 1994 [25] 1 Schumacher M 1995 [26] Sakaguchi G 1998 [27] Myers…
Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Valvulogenesis
Fig. 36.1 Canonical BMP signaling pathways. BMP form a heteromeric complex with type I and type II BMP receptors. Subsequent to this complex formation, the type II receptor phosphorylates the…
