Endarterectomy
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Sunday, November 08, 2009

[Solitary pulmonary nodule]

21 Sep 2009 Primary pulmonary amyloidosis is rare. Three patterns of involvement have been described: tracheobronchial, nodular and diffuse parenchymal. The nodular parenchymal amyloid deposits are often multiple, much less common focal. We hereby present a ... Read more...

Pulmonary hypertensive medical therapy in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension before pulmonary thromboendarterectomy.

12 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The currently recommended treatment for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE). No convincing evidence for the use of pulmonary hypertensive medical therapy (PHT) exists in operable ... Read more...

[Dissection of the superior mesenteric artery: a rare cause of abdominal pain]

31 Aug 2009 HISTORY: A previously healthy 47-year-old man had suffered from intermittent subacute abdominal pain for six weeks. He had no significant past medical history except of smoking (30 pack years). INVESTIGATIONS: Physical examination and laboratory ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Endarterectomy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Solitary pulmonary nodule] 21 Sep 2009
• Pulmonary hypertensive medical therapy in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension before pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. 12 Sep 2009
• [Dissection of the superior mesenteric artery: a rare cause of abdominal pain] 31 Aug 2009
• [Update: Current clinical developments in pulmonary hypertension] 26 Aug 2009
• Extracorporeal life support for the control of life-threatening pulmonary hemorrhage. 30 Jul 2009
• Inhibition of mTOR attenuates store-operated Ca2+ entry in cells from endarterectomized tissues of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. 22 Jul 2009
• Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. 22 Jul 2009
• Isolated femoral endarterectomy: impact of SFA TASC classification on recurrence of symptoms and need for additional intervention. 20 Jul 2009
• Hybrid management of a false aneurysm complicating an arteriovenous graft in a patient with critical limb ischemia. 29 Jun 2009
• Interventional and surgical modalities of treatment in pulmonary hypertension. 28 Jun 2009
• Carotid disease: stenting versus endarterectomy. 14 Jun 2009
• eComment: Islets technique to reduce endarterectomized area included into graft during left anterior descending coronary artery endarterectomy. 30 May 2009
• Hemodynamic instability after pulmonary endarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension correlates with cytokine network hyperstimulation. 11 May 2009
• [Quadruple coronary endarterectomy while off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery - a case report] 29 Apr 2009
• Do the means justify the ends? 29 Apr 2009
• [Is there a hope in pharmacological treatment of thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension?] 29 Apr 2009
• Mesenteric revascularization: management and outcomes in the United States, 1988-2006. 14 Apr 2009
• Regarding "Common femoral artery occlusive disease: contemporary results following surgical endarterectomy". 30 Mar 2009
• Outcome after combined pulmonary endarterectomy and mitral valve replacement. 25 Mar 2009
• Coronary-coronary bypass to reconstruct coronary artery bed following removal of a guidewire entrapped in a stent. 25 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Endarterectomy'

Definition: Surgical excision, performed under general anesthesia, of the atheromatous tunica intima of an artery. When reconstruction of an artery is performed as an endovascular procedure through a catheter, it is called ATHERECTOMY.

Descriptor UI: D004691

Alternative terms: Endarterectomy; Endarterectomies; Thromboendarterectomy; Thromboendarterectomies;

Related Mesh Headings: Atherectomy; Angioplasty;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; rehabilitation; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E04.100.814.456;

History Note: 67(65)

Technical Notes: do not use /util except by MeSH definition