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Human immunodeficiency virus and carotid artery disease - single center experie...

Abstract Introduction: People infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) - People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) - seem to have an increased risk of incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular diseases, namely stroke of ischemic nature. Additional etiological mechanisms, in addition to aging, appear to lie in chronic virus-mediated inflammation as well as in antiretroviral therapy (ART). The aim of this ...

Outcomes of varicose vein surgery in patients with HIV/AIDS - a nested case-con...

Abstract Introduction: Currently, people living with HIV/ AIDS (PLWHA) attain a life expectancy similar to a non-HIV population. However, these patients experience a status of chronic inflammation, which is a known cause of arteriopathy. Yet, literature is scarce regarding the potential venous inflammatory effect, especially after varicose vein surgery. The aim of this study was to perform a descriptive analysi...

Efeitos da pandemia Covid-19 num serviço de angiologia e cirurgia vascular

Predictors of neck bleeding after carotid endarterectomy: A 5 year revision

Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of neck bleeding, requiring or not surgical intervention, after carotid endarterectomy (CE) and to identify its predictive parameters and its influence in stroke, myocardial infarction (MI) and mortality. Methods: This was a retrospective review of 200 CEs carried out in 194 patients between 2010 and 2014 in our institution. The endpoints were: p...

Angioacesso autólogo: determinantes da funcionalidade e permeabilidade

Objectivo: Identificação e quantificação do impacto dos factores determinantes de permeabilidade e funcionalidade nos angioacessosautólogos. Material e métodos: Foram analisados os dados colhidos prospectivamente relativos a 94 acessos autólogos para hemodiálise realizados em 88 doentes durante o ano de 2010. As taxas de permeabilidade e funcionalidade foram estimadas pelo método de Kaplan-Meier. O impacto dos ...

Fístulas aorto-entéricas secundárias: caso clínico

As fístulas aorto-entéricas secundárias são complicações raras, mas potencialmente fatais após cirurgia da aorta abdominal e permanecem umas das mais desafiantes entidades patológicas vasculares a tratar. Os autores apresentam um caso clínico de uma doente com antecedentes de cirurgia de reconstrução aórtica (bypass aorto-bifemoral realizado há 6 anos) para tratamento de doença arterial periférica, que foi admi...