Case Report
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2023. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
World J Clin Cases. Apr 26, 2023; 11(12): 2811-2816
Published online Apr 26, 2023. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v11.i12.2811
Open surgery: Still a great option to treat patients with post-traumatic arteriovenous fistulas: A case report
Roman Kalinin, Igor Suchkov, Nina Mzhavanadze, Yulia Borisova, Ilya Panin
Roman Kalinin, Igor Suchkov, Nina Mzhavanadze, Ilya Panin, Department of Cardiovascular, Endovascular Surgery, and Diagnostic Radiology, Ryazan State Medical University, Ryazan 390026, Russia
Yulia Borisova, Department of Functional Diagnostics, Ryazan City Hospital for Emergency Medicine, Ryazan 390026, Russia
Ilya Panin, Department of Radiology, Ryazan City Hospital for Emergency Medicine, Ryazan 390026, Russia
Author contributions: Kalinin RE and Suchkov IA designed the report; Mzhavanadze ND treated the patient and collected the patient’s clinical data; Borisova YuO and Panin IV performed diagnostic procedures; Suchkov IA, Mzhavanadze ND, Borisova YuO and Panin IV analyzed the data and wrote the paper.
Informed consent statement: The patient was not required to give informed consent to this case report because the analysis used completely anonymous data; the consent was obtained before performing any medical investigation or start of treatment as required.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
CARE Checklist (2016) statement: The authors have read the CARE Checklist (2016), and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CARE Checklist (2016).
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Nina Mzhavanadze, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular, Endovascular Surgery, and Diagnostic Radiology, Ryazan State Medical University, Vysokovoltnaya, 9, Ryazan 390026, Russia. nina_mzhavanadze@mail.ru
Received: December 26, 2022
Peer-review started: December 26, 2022
First decision: January 17, 2023
Revised: January 26, 2023
Accepted: March 9, 2023
Article in press: March 9, 2023
Published online: April 26, 2023
Processing time: 120 Days and 12.3 Hours
Core Tip

Core Tip: Conventional open vascular surgery is a great option in treatment of post-traumatic arterio-venous fistulas involving femoral vessels in patients with hostile anatomy or complicated cases leading to aneurysm formation and limb ischemia.