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.

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.

[Spontaneous thrombosis of an iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm of the arterial brachiocephalic trunk following central venous catheterization].

Following the unsuccessful puncture of the right subclavian vein during central catheterism, a 80-year-old women developed a pseudoaneurysm on the external face of the brachiocephalic artery. Her symptomatology and haemodynamic status having remained steady, the patient was closely observed. The pseudoaneurysm itself thrombosed spontaneously and the foreseen endovascular procedure doesn't have been achieved.