Fiser Chapter 27 VASCULAR Flashcards
Lymphedema tx
Leg elevation, compression, antibiotics for infection
How do you expose the SMA?
Divide the LOT. SMA is to the right of this near the base of the transverse colon mesentery.
Swollen red toe with pus coming out and red streaks up leg, sepsis
Wet gangrene, surgical emergency, may need amputation
Inflammatory aneurysms complications
Just inflammation (not infection), occurs in 10% of AAA patients; weight loss, high ESR, thickened rim above calcifications on CT; resolves after aortic graft placement
- Adhesions to 3rd and 4th duodenum
- Ureteral entrapment
Watershed areas
Griffith’s: splenic flexure
Sudak’s: upper rectum
Mal perforans ulcer
Metatarsal heads 2nd MTP joint most common Possible OM (Diabetics)
Leakage of clear fluid after groin surgery
Lymphocele
Tx: percutaneous drainage; resection of that fails
Can inject isosulfan blue dye into foot to identify lymphatic channels supplying lymphocele
Indication for repair of descending aortic aneurysms
> 5.5 cm if endovascular repair possible
> 6.5cm if open repair needed
Risk factors for visceral artery aneurysms
Medial fibrodysplasia
Portal HTN
Inflammation (pancreatitis causing arterial disruption)
Swelling right after lower extremity bypass
Reperfusion injury
can lead to compartment syndrome, lactic acidosis, hyperkalemia, myoglobinuria
Tx of acute arterial embolism
Embolectomy
Fasciotomy if ischemia > 4-6 hours
Aortoiliac emboli (loss of both femoral pulses): bilateral femoral artery cutdowns and bilateral embolectomies
Atheroma embolism diagnosis and treatment
Dx: CT CAP (look for aneurysmal source) and ECHO
Tx: aneurysm repair or arterial exclusion with bypass
Most common congenital hypercoagulable disorder
Leiden factor: resistance to activated protein C
Indication for repair of ascending aortic aneurysm
Acutely symptomatic
>/= 5.5 cm (> 5cm with Marfan’s)
Rapid increase in size (>0.5 cm/yr)
Most common cause of acute death after AAA repair
MI
Major vein injured with prximal cross-clamp in AAA repair
Retro-aortic left renal vein
Most common visceral aneurysm, and indication for repair
Splenic artery aneurysm
High rate of rupture in 3rd trim pregnancy
Repair if symptomatic, if pregnant, if childbearing age, or is >3-4cm
Indications for shunt during CEA
Stump pressures < 50, or
Contralateral side is tight
Signs of PAD
- Pallor
- Dependent rubor
- Hair loss
- Slow capillary refill
Most common location of pseudoaneurysm
femoral artery
Risk factors for AAA
Males
Age
Smoking
Family history
Atherosclerosis risk factors
-Smoking
-HTN
-Hypercholesterolemia
-DM
0Hereditary factors
Femoropopliteal graft 5-year patency
75%
Improved if for claudication rather than limb salvage
Carotid endarterectomy indications
> 70% stenosis and symptoms, or
> 80% stenosis
HTN in young women, string of beads appearance
FMD: Most commonly renal artery followed by carotid and iliac
If carotids involved, HA or stroke
Tx: PTA best, bypass if fails
Postnatal angiogenesis mechanism
Budding from preexisting vessels
Involved angiogenin
Most complication of aneurysms above versus below inguinal ligament
Rupture above
Thrombosis and emboli below
Dacron graft use
Aorta and large vessels
Treatment of pseudoaneurysm after percutaneous interention
US-guided compression with thrombin injection
Surgical repair if flow remains afterward
Pain, paresthesia, poikilothermia, paralysis
acute arterial embolus
pallor -> cyanosis -> marbling
Popliteal artery exposure below knee
Gastrocnemius is posterior
Popliteus muscle is anterior
TOS most common cause of pain
brachial plexus irritation
Blood flow to brain
Carotids supply 85%
Thoracic aortic surgery complications
MI
Renal failure
Paraplegia (descending thoracic aortic surgery)
Patient with AAA develops back or abdominal pain and has hypotension
AAA rupture
Dx: US or abdominal CT
Postop aortic dissection repair monitoring
Lifetime MRIs
30% eventually get aneurysm formation requiring surgery
TOS most common anatomic abnormality
cervical rib
Wet gangrene management
Need to remove infected necrotic material, antibiotics
Can be surgical emergency if extensive infection
What layer of vessel wall does aortic dissection occur in?
Medial layer
Early and late swelling following lower extremity bypass
Early: reperfusion injury and compartment syndrome (fasciotomy)
Late: DVT
Raised red/blue scarring where prior lymphedema was
Lymphangiosarcoma
Early mets to lung
Mid-thigh claudication means occlusion is where
External iliac
Pseudoaneurysm definition
Collection of blood in continuity with artery but not enclosed by all 3 layers of wall
Patient with heel ulceration to bone: treatment?
Amputation
most common peripheral aneurysm
popliteal
prominent pop pulses on exam
50% have aneurysm elsewhere
TOS tx
Cervical rib and 1st rib resection, divide anterior scalene muscle
Problems with smiling/corner of mouth after CEA
Mandibular branch of facial nerve injury
BKA versus AKA prognosis
BKA: 80% heal, 70% walk again, 5% mortality
AKA: 90% heal, 30% walk again, 10% mortality
Mycotic aneurysm treatment
Usually need extra-anatomic bypass (axillary-femoral with fem-fem crossover) and resection of infrarenal aorta to clear infection
Risk factors for aortic dissection
Marfan’s
Previous aneurysm
Atherosclerosis
Communication between ICA and ECA
Ophthalmic artery and internal maxillary artery
Dx compartment syndrome
Clinical
Compt pressure >20-30 mm Hg
Leg amputation 3 year mortality
50%
Aortic graft infection organisms
- Staphylococcus
2. E coli
Emergent CEA indications
Fluctuating neurologic symptoms or crescendo/evolving TIAs
Most common cause of non-stroke M&M after CEA
MI
Type III endoleak
OVERLAP sites failure when using multiple grafts or fabric tear
Tx: Secondary endograft to cover overlap site or tear
Superficial posterior leg compartment nerve
Sural nerve
Older woman with headache, fever, blurred vision
Temporal arteritis
Risk of blindness
Dx: Temproal artery bx shows giant cell arteritis, granulomas. Long segments of smooth stenosis
Tx: Steroids, bypass of large vessels if needed; NO endarterectomy
Where do most dissections start?
Ascending aorta
Greater saphenous vein stripping
tx for saphenofemoral valve incompetence
Isolated iliac disease tx
- PTA with stent
2. Consider fem-fem crossover
MCC early failure of RSVG
Technical problem
Lymphatics
No basement membrane
Not in bone/muscle/tendon/cartilage/brain/cornea
Radiation arteritis early/late/very late
Early: obliterative endarteritis (sloughing and thrombosis)
Late 1-10 years: fibrosis, scar, stenosis
Very late 3-30 years: advanced atherosclerosis
MCC of PAD
Atherosclerosis
Treatment of Mal perforans ulcer
Non-weightbearing, metatarsal head debridement (remove cartilage), antibiotics, assess need for revasc
Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty indication
Common iliac artery stenosis, best for short stenosis
Mech: intima usually rupture, media stretched, plaque pushed out, requires passage of wire first
Patient with tearing-like chest pain, unequal pulses or BP in upper extremities
Aortic dissection
95% have HTN at presentation
Most common cause of cerebral ischemic events
- Arterial embolization from the ICA (not thrombosis)
- Can also occur from low-flow state through stenotic lesion
- Heart is 2nd most common source of cerebral emboli
Anterior cerebral artery events symptoms
AMS, release, slowing
Most common atherosclerotic occlusion in lower extremities
Hunter’s canal (distal superficial femoral artery exits here)
Sartorius muscle covers Hunter’s canal
What causes death in aortic dissection?
Cardiac failure from aortic insufficiency, cardiac tamponade, or rupture
Popliteal artery aneurysm dx and tx
Dx: US
Tx: exclusion and bypass (not stent)
Lateral leg compartment nerve
Superficial peroneal nerve: eversion, lateral foot sensation
Rate or restenosis after CEA
15%
Leg compartments
- Anterior: deep peroneal nerve (dorsiflexion and web sensation), AT artery
- Lateral: superficial peroneal nerve (eversion, lateral foot sensation)
- Deep posterior: tibial nerve (plantar flexion), PT artery, peroneal artery
- Superficial posterior: sural nerve
Tenderness, cyanosis, massive edema
Phlegmasia cerulean dolens
Tx: heparin, rarely surgery
Venous ulcer cause and location
- venous valve incompetence 90%
- above and posterior to malleoli
Lymphedema mechanism
Obstructed, too few, or nonfunctional lymphatics
- > fibrosis in subcutaneous tissue -> woody edema
- > cellulitis and lymphangitis after minor trauma
1 preventive agent for atherosclerosis
Statins
Next step if pulse volume recordings suggest significant disease
Arteriogram
Buttock or thigh claudication, impotence, no femoral pulses
Leriche syndrome: lesion at aortic bifurcation or above
Tx: Aorto-bifemoral bypass graft
Surgical repair of aortic dissections
Ascending: open repair with graft
Descending: endograft or open or fenestrations
Posterior cerebral artery events symptoms
Vertigo, tinnitus, drop attacks, incoordination
Tongue deviates to L after CEA, speech and mastication difficult
Left hypoglossal nerve injury
Premenopausal woman with resistant HTN, DBP > 115, bruits
Renal artery stenosis
FMD: R side, distal 1/3, women
Renal atherosclerosis: L side, proximal 1/3, men
TOS diagnosis
cervical spine and chest MRI
duplex US
EMG
Most common acquired hypercoagulable disorder
Smoking
Acute arterial thrombosis treatment
Threatened limb (loss of motor or neuro): heparin and OR for thrombectomy
Otherwise: angiography for thrombolytics
Virchow’s triad
Venous stasis
Hypercoagulability
Venous wall injury
Type IV endoleak
graft WALL porosity or suture holes
Tx: observe; can place nonporous stent if that fails
Indications for IVC filter
AC contraindication
PE while on Coumadin
Free-floating ileofemoral thrombi
After pulmonary embolectomy