Vascular Emergency

Cover......Page 1
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 6
FOREWORD......Page 10
CONTENTS......Page 12
1 BIOETHICAL CONCERNS IN VASCULAR EMERGENCIES......Page 14
2 URGENT CAROTID SURGERY......Page 26
3 BLUNT INJURY TO THE CAROTID AND VERTEBRAL ARTERIES......Page 40
4 PENETRATING INJURY TO THE BLOOD VESSELS OF THE NECK AND MEDIASTINUM......Page 52
5 ACUTE ABDOMINAL AORTIC OCCLUSION......Page 62
6 HAS MORTALITY RATE FOR RUPTURED AAA CHANGED OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS?......Page 68
7 RUPTURED AAA: SHOULD ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT BE THE FIRST CHOICE?......Page 74
8 URGENT OPEN SURGERY AFTER ENDOVASCULAR AAA REPAIR......Page 84
9 ACUTE COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY......Page 94
10 ACUTE TYPE B AORTIC DISSECTION: SURGICAL INDICATIONS AND STRATEGY......Page 100
11 ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF AORTIC TYPE B DISSECTION......Page 112
12 TRAUMATIC RUPTURE OF THE THORACIC AORTA......Page 120
13 ACUTE OCCLUSION OF THE RENAL ARTERIES......Page 138
14 ACUTE INTESTINAL ISCHEMIA......Page 150
15 RUPTURE OF SPLANCHNIC ARTERY ANEURYSMS......Page 162
16 THE ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME......Page 170
17 ACUTE THROMBOSIS OF ILIOCAVAL VEINS......Page 178
18 ACUTE SUBCLAVIAN-AXILLARY VEIN THROMBOSIS......Page 186
19 AORTOCAVAL FlSTULA......Page 194
20 TRAUMATIC INJURY OF THE VENA CAVA AND ITS MAJOR BRANCHES......Page 206
21 ACUTE ISCHEMIA OF THE UPPER LIMB......Page 220
22 ACUTE COMPLICATIONS OF ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA FOR HEMODIALYSIS......Page 230
23 GUNSHOT AND EXPLOSIVE PROJECTILE VASCULAR INJURIES......Page 244
24 ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF BLUNT INJURY OF THE LIMBS......Page 260
25 RARE CAUSES OF ACUTE ISCHEMIA OF THE LIMBS......Page 266
26 ACUTE ARTERIAL THROMBOSIS OF THE LOWER LIMBS......Page 274
27 ARTERIAL EMBOLI OF THE LOWER LIMBS......Page 288
28 ACUTE THROMBOLYSIS OF PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL ANEURYSMS......Page 294
29 ENDOVASCULAR APPROACH TO ACUTE ARTERIAL OCCLUSIONS......Page 300
30 THROMBOLYSIS FOR OCCLUSION OF BYPASS GRAFTS......Page 308
31 ACUTE PROBLEMS OF THE DIABETIC FOOT......Page 314