Brachial Artery Injuries: A Seven-year Experience with a Prospective Database

Abstract

Brachial artery injuries are the commonest vascular injuries to the limbs, with a good prognosis, provided early repair is undertaken. Arteriography is usually unnecessary and limb loss is low, provided appropriate decompression of a compartment syndrome is performed, however in this group the limb loss rate is 25% compared to the overall of 2%. The repair of a brachial artery is a good training procedure for surgical trainees, associated with a low morbidity.

Vascular Traumatism of Limbs in Civil Practice in Dakar

“…Indeed, the development of urbanization implies an increase of the populations of the cities thus favoring promiscuity and a certain urban poverty. In our series, wounds by firearms account for 2.8% of cases, unlike other series [17,12,18]. In our series, road accidents, unlike Ndiaye series (21.56%) [8].…”

“…It is in these cases that the use of imaging is important as was the case in our study where a false aneurysm was found in 11.2% of cases and an arteriovenous fistula in 1.9%. Hussain et al [17] reported a rate of 7.8% false aneurysms; they did not observe any cases of arteriovenous fistulas. Nwafor et al [27] in their series obtained a rate of 30% false aneurysms and 3.8% arteriovenous fistulas.…”

Brachial artery injury in a referral center in central Mexico

“…It occurs in males with a 9:1 ratio in the 3 rd and 4 th decade of life. Penetrating wounds are the most common mechanism of injury (90%), with a sharp object wound being the main one, followed by a gunshot wound 2,3 .…”