ויקטור גינזבורג¹, ג'ורג' גרינברג¹, חורחה דלגדו², ואדים צודיקוב³, בוריס קירשטיין⁴, גבריאל סנדרו¹

¹כירורגיית כלי-דם, ²גסטרואנטרולוגיה, ³מכון הרנטגן, ⁴מח' כירורגית א', מרכז רפואי אוניברסיטאי סורוקה, באר שבע, מסונף לפקולטה למדעי הבריאות, אוניברסיטת בן גוריון בנגב, באר שבע

נצור ותין-ושט בבית-החזה הגורם לדמם ממערכת העיכול הוא נדיר. תיקון תוך-נהורי של הפתולוגיה במיקרים שכאלה נדיר ביותר.

במאמר זה מובאת פרשת חולה בת 83 שאושפזה בגין הקאות דמיות שהחלו שעות ספורות לפני התקבלותה. בבירור נמצא שמקור הדימום בוושט, בנצור ותין-ושט. בוצע בהצלחה תיקון תוך-נהורי של פריצת הוותין לוושט והביא להפסקת הדמם. מועלה לדיון קשר אפשרי בין מחלת רקע שהיא דלקת עורק הרקה (Temporal (arteritis אשר לקתה בה החולה בעבר לבין התפתחות הנצור והדימום.

Surgery in Patients over 100 Years of age 5-Year Experience (1995-2000)

Victor Ginzburg¹, Gabriel Szendro¹, Luis Golcman¹, Natan Weksler², Shemuel Yurfest¹, Yefim Charach¹

The Departments of Vascular Surgery¹ and Anesthesiology², Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheba, Israel

The age distribution of a given national population is of utmost importance when dealing with public health and analyzing the use of various national health facilities. This is based on the totally different use of health sources by different age groups. Despite continuous prolongation of life expectancy and the related aging of the western hospitalized population the sub-group of patients over 100 year old of age is unusual demographically and accounts for only a very small portion of the total number of patients hospitalized in surgical wards. During the 5 year experience between 1995 and 2000 seventeen such patients were admitted to our surgical departments. Eight of those underwent 11 operations with zero peri-operative mortality and no significant complications. These 11 operations in this elderly population are the basis of our report.

Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Peripheral Vasculature - Role & Applications in Vascular Surgery

G. Szendro¹, D. Lumelsky², A. Klimov², I. Faingersh³

The department of vascular surgery Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurion university Beer-Sheva¹, the department of radiology Ha'Emek Medical Center Afula² and the department of surgery "B" Ha'Emek Medical Center Afula³

Computed tomographic angiography (CTA) is a relatively new diagnostic modality in the field of vascular surgery. Despite being new it has already been introduced into a wide range of diagnostic applications in this field and in many cases it can precede or replace the conventional intra-arterial angiography. During a 12 month period between 1.8.98 and 1.8.99 sixty five peripheral arterial imaging scans were performed using a CT Twin - 2 helical scanner (Spiral Twin Flash., Elscint, Israel) with a 100% technical success rate and no complications at all. Twelve patients (18.5%) were operated upon and 20 (30.7%) underwent endovascular procedures with full intra-procedural agreement with the pre-operative or pre-procedure CTA findings. Despite possible pitfalls and a few disadvantages the technique carries major benefits and significant advantages to both the patient and the clinician. Therefore we recommend considering CTA as a first line diagnostic modality whenever peripheral vasculature has to be demonstrated whether electively or urgently and to spare the conventional angiography for selected cases only.

Ent of Femoral Artery Pseudo-Aneurysms 

G. Szendro, A. Klimov, A. Lennox, B. Jonathan, L. Avrahami, B. Yechieli, M. Griffin, S. Yurfest, Y. Charach, L. Golcman, A.N. Nicolaides

Vascular Surgery Dept., Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheba; Irvine Laboratory for Cardiovascular Investigation and Research, St. Mary's  Hospital, Imperial College Medical  School, London; Vascular Laboratory, Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheba; and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba

The femoral artery remains the most used peripheral site for radiological catheter access. With a greater number of both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures being performed by interventional radiologists and cardiologists, and with larger catheters being used for stenting and endovascular grafting, the incidence of iatrogenic pseudo-aneurysms reported has reached as high as 0.5-2%. Ideally, they should thrombose spontaneously. However, when this does not occur, management options include: observation, ultrasound-guided obliterative compression, direct thrombin injection, embolization, stent graft insertion, and very rarely- surgery.

During a 7-year period (1992-1999) we treated 131 cases of femoral artery false aneurysms. Until 1998 ultrasound-guided compression-obliteration, with a 95% success rate, was our method of choice. Since 1998, direct thrombin injection, with 100% success in 24 cases, has become our preferred method. It is pain-free, fully successful even in anticoagulated patients, and is currently our treatment of choice.