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The authors describe their experience of the aneurysm popliteal artery. They analyze the symptomatology, the diagnostic way and the therapy of such disease.
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Aneurysm , Popliteal Artery , Aged , Aneurysm/diagnosis , Aneurysm/surgery , Humans , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
Abdominal aortic coarctation is a rare, non-atherosclerotic disease. It is a functionally significant at an early age when associated with aortic branch stenosis and renovascular hypertension. The pathogenesis of aortic constrictive lesions remains unknown, but may be related to developmental error or aortic growth arrest and various hypotheses have been reported. When the renal arteries are involved by the coarctation, severe hypertension is common at an early age and in untreated patients, life-threatening complications commonly occur. Patients who reach the age of 40 years generally have the coarctation below the renal arteries but even when the renal arteries are not involved by the coarctation, renovascular disease may still occur due to secondary atherosclerosis. Aortic thrombosis secondary to abdominal aortic coarctation with renovascular disease and lower limb ischemia, occurring in a 63-year old woman, is reported.
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Aortic Coarctation/complications , Aortic Diseases/etiology , Hypertension, Renovascular/etiology , Thrombosis/etiology , Aorta, Abdominal/surgery , Aortic Coarctation/surgery , Aortic Diseases/surgery , Female , Humans , Ischemia/etiology , Leg/blood supply , Middle Aged , Thrombosis/surgeryABSTRACT
Surgical complications after total thyroidectomy (TT) and subtotal thyroidectomy (STT) are analysed in a series of 364 patients operated on over a 36-month period. All operations were carried out because of the following 3 groups of disease: malignant tumors, multinodular goiter and Graves' disease. The difference among the incidence of surgical complications resulted to be not statistically significant when as discriminating factors the type of surgery or disease were used, while the difference was statistically significant when the results obtained in the 2 groups of patients operated only once or undergoing reoperative surgery for recurrence, were compared. Based on these observations, the surgical approach consistent with the above mentioned types of thyroid disease is reported, and the preference for total thyroidectomy is justified to a larger extent by what has been done to-date also in case of benign thyroid disease. The choice of the type of surgery should always be made, based on a careful clinical and intraoperative assessment of each case.
