We conducted this retrospective study to determine the prevalence of giant cell arteritis (GCA) in patients exhibiting nonatherosclerotic upper and/or lower extremity arterial involvement and to… (More)
Acquired abdominal aortic aneurysms are usually associated with a mural thrombus through which blood continues to flow. Some early data suggest that aneurysmal evolution correlates with the… (More)
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Chronic rejection of arterial allografts and xenografts results in arterial wall dilation and rupture, making them unsuitable for long-term arterial replacement in vascular surgery. In the… (More)
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To evaluate prospectively the safety and efficacy of totally percutaneous placement of abdominal and thoracic aortic endografts using the Prostar XL suture-mediated closure system.
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Dissatisfaction with conventional methods of treatment of infected infrarenal aortic prosthetic grafts and excellent long-term results reported by heart surgeons after allograft replacement… (More)
Arterial wall is the main site involved in the chronic rejection process. The rat aortic allograft model was used here to characterize and describe the sequential evolution of the different targets… (More)
BACKGROUND
Both humoral factors and apoptosis have been recently suggested to play a role in chronic allograft rejection. However, a link between alloantibodies and grafted cell apoptosis has never… (More)
One hundred femoropopliteal bypass procedures performed in 91 patients between October 1980 and January 1985 were randomly divided into two statistically comparable groups including 50 in situ vein… (More)
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Prosthetic graft infection is an uncommon but life-threatening complication of descending thoracic/thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysmectomy. The purpose of this study was to assess the value of… (More)
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Fucoidan, a new low molecular weight sulfated polysaccharide (LMWF), has previously been shown to mobilize bone marrow-derived progenitors cells via stimulation of stromal derived factor… (More)