IntroductionEndovascular aortic repair (ENDO) in patients with connective tissue disease (CTD) has historically been discouraged in society guidelines because of durability concerns. However, high-volume aortic centers increasingly employ E…
OBJECTIVE: Major adverse limb event-free survival (MALE-FS) differed significantly by initial revascularization approach in the BEST-CLI randomized trial. The BEST-CLI trial represented a highly selected subgroup of patients seen in clinica…
OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the association between postoperative hyperglycemia and outcomes after abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. METHODS: We used diagnosis and procedure codes (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision…
BACKGROUND: Compression of the left renal vein between the aorta and the superior mesenteric artery is a rare but possibly underestimated condition. Surgical correction (42 cases reported in the literature) can be performed by means of a va…
Danazol is a synthetic androgenic steroid used clinically for the treatment of a wide variety of disorders. Although there is no extensive evidence that androgens are thrombogenic in humans, there are case reports of cerebral, coronary, and…