Category Vascular Surgery
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Cervical artery dissection

Cervical artery dissections (CADs) involve the carotid or vertebral arteries and are a significant cause of stroke in young people. Internal carotid artery dissections are most common

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Acute ischaemic limb

Limb ischaemia is generally classified on the basis of its onset and severity, and may be complete, incomplete or irreversible

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Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) is a permanent localised or diffuse dilatation of the abdominal aorta to 1.5 times its normal diameter that involving all three layers of the vessel wall

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Jugular venous thrombosis

Lemierre syndrome is infective thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein caused primarily by anaerobic organisms from a focus of oropharyngeal infection

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Acute Aortic Dissection

Acute Aortic Dissection (AAD) is uncommon but highly lethal, requiring prompt recognition and management. Due to its non-specific clinical presentation, a high index of suspicion is necessary, particularly in high-risk patients.

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Thromboangiitis obliterans

Thromboangiitis obliterans (aka Buerger disease) is a non-atherosclerotic, segmental, inflammatory disease that most commonly affects the small to medium-sized arteries and veins of the upper and lower limbs.

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Leopold Von Schrötter

Leopold Schrötter Ritter von Kristelli (1837-1908) an Austrian internal physician. He is known for his description of effort thrombosis (upper limb DVT) eponymously termed Paget-Shroetter syndrome in 1884.

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Visceral artery aneurysm

Visceral artery aneurysm (VAA) and visceral artery pseudoaneurysm (VAPA) are arterial aneurysms affecting the coeliac, superior mesenteric, or inferior mesenteric arteries and their branches.