Purpose: To investigate the effects of a new electrocautery device to provoke endovascular venous thermal injury.
Methods: An experimental endovascular electrocautery was placed inside eight ex-vivo bovine saphenous veins models. Each one was divided in eight segments and progressive intensities of electric energy liberated.
Objective: To measure the pulsatility of human aneurysms before and after complete exclusion with an endograft.
Method: Five aortic aneurysms obtained during necropsy were submitted to pulsatile perfusion before and after implantation of a bifurcated endograft. The specimens were contained in a closed chamber filled with saline solution.