Harry A. Kaupp

Screening for significant carotid stenosis by ocular pneumoplethysmography

Carotid stenosis is significant when the resulting lumen is 50 per cent or less of the diameter of the vessel distal to the carotid sinus. The ocular pneumoplethysmograph can detect these stenoses with an accuracy of 97 per cent.

Femoral aneurysmectomy. Management of the profunda femoris artery.

From the Department of Surgery of the Northwestern University. Aided by the Northwestern University Vascular Research Fund. Aneurysm excision with graft replacement has reached a high degree of surgical precision. Indications for surgery are dominated by the fact that the presence of a sizable aneurysm in an otherwise well individual constitutes need for surgical excision. Aneurysms in general enlarge and rupture. Those which cross joint creases carry an additional threat of acute occlusion. In

Treatment of stress incontinence by the Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz procedure

Abstract Retropubic vesicourethral suspension in primary and secondary stress incontinence results in a high percentage of cures, and frequently is indicated as the initial procedure for repair of stress incontinence.