Total laparoscopic bypass is safe and effective for aortoiliac occlusive disease.

Objective: We reviewed our experience of total laparoscopic aortic bypass surgery performed for aortoiliac occlusive disease (AIOD), focusing on early 30-day mortality and morbidity and short-term and midterm outcomes.

Methods: A monocentric retrospective study was conducted between October 2002 and October 2011; we performed 173 total laparoscopic aortic surgeries to treat AIOD.

Results: Patients included 135 men and 38 women.

Feasibility of percutaneous radiofrequency ablation for pulmonary malignancies in the hands of the surgeon.

Aim: To assess the feasibility of percutaneous pulmonary radiofrequency ablation (RFA) executed by a single surgeon.

Materials And Methods: Between 2007 and 2010, 15 procedures were performed in 11 patients during 13 sessions. Sex, age, pulmonary localisation and tumor diameter are discussed.

Preliminary results of carotid artery stenting in a non-academic hospital.

Introduction: A review of our experience with CAS in a non-academic hospital is presented.

Materials And Methods: A consecutive series of 18 CAS-interventions between 2003 and 2005 is studied retrospectively. Indication, medical history, preoperative carotid imaging, operative technique and results were studied for each patient.

Regression of the systemic vasculature to the lung after removal of pulmonary artery obstruction.

Rationale: Pulmonary artery occlusion stimulates angiogenesis in the systemic circulation of the ipsilateral lung and increases systemic- to-pulmonary blood flow. Whether this systemic neovascularization decreases after lung revascularization is unknown.

Objectives: To assess the influence of lung revascularization on anatomy and flow of bronchial vessels supplying a chronically ischemic lung in piglets.

Totally laparoscopic aortobifemoral bypass: a case report.

Since a few years, vascular surgeons are becoming interested in laparoscopic vascular techniques. After initial experience with the hand-assisted laparoscopic technique, we now adopt the totally laparoscopic approach for aortoiliac surgery. Our first case with this second technique is presented.