European journal of vascular surgery
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To determine the value of dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography and clinical variables to predict perioperative and late cardiac events in patients scheduled for elective major non-cardiac vascular surgery. ⋯ Dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography is a relatively safe and useful test to identify patients at risk of perioperative and late postoperative cardiac events.
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Pseudoaneurysm of the femoral artery is a well known complication after diagnostic and therapeutic catheterisation. We report a case of voluminous postcatheterisation false aneurysm, which developed on a pre-existing deep femoral artery aneurysm. Infection by Staphylococcus aureus was demonstrated. ⋯ In conclusion, this complication could have been avoided by accurate puncture technique. Surgical exploration under local anaesthesia is ill-advised. Especially in patients with advanced vascular disease, non-invasive studies of the puncture site is recommended.