In this clinical study, Prevena negative pressure dressing significantly decreased the incidence of groin wound infection in patients after vascular surgery.

Abdominal aortic reconstruction is a safe method for treating CAAAO with low associated morbidity and mortality. Aorto-renal thromboendartectomy with supra-renal aortic clamping and aortic replacement remains an effective treatment for those with significant pararenal aortic disease, and can be performed without significant renal impairment.

Nonatherosclerotic etiologies of arterial insufficiency are uncommon but important causes of chronic lower extremity ischemia. We report a patient with multiple hereditary exostoses (MHE) presenting with lifestyle-limiting lower extremity claudication and popliteal artery occlusion secondary to a large osteochondroma. The presence of MHE with associated osteochondroma resulting in arterial occlusion is a rare condition. Management strategies for treating large osteochondromas adjacent to or with vessel involvement in asymptomatic patients remain undefined.

Abdominal aortic injury as a result of blunt trauma is a rare event and has been described in few children. A 6-year-old girl presented with acute bilateral lower extremity ischemia, and a triad of acute aortic occlusion, intra-abdominal visceral injury, and a lumbar chance fracture after sustaining a seat belt injury from a motor vehicle collision. An emergency aortic thromboendarterectomy and primary repair were performed. This represents one of the few reports of acute traumatic aortic thrombosis in a child and highlights the surgical treatment of acute abdominal aortic injury in a pediatric patient.

Objectives:Extracranial carotid artery true aneurysm is extremely uncommon, and definite treatment has traditionally involved open surgical repair. Although successful management of the internal carotid artery aneurysms using endovascular stenting and embolization has recently been reported, only a limited number of cases have been reported.Methods:We present a case of symptomatic carotid true aneurysm repaired with covered stent and coil embolization of the external carotid artery. We also review the English literature and discuss the epidemiology, causes, diagnosis, and management options of internal carotid artery aneurysms.Results:The patient did not have any complications, and was discharged home on the postoperative day 1 in stable condition.Conclusion:Our report suggests that endovascular procedure is feasible in the treatment of extracranial carotid artery aneurysms.