Acute traumatic aortic rupture: a comparison of surgical and stent-graft repair.

Objective: The study's objective was to comparatively evaluate surgery and stent-graft repair of acute or subacute traumatic aortic rupture.

Methods: A total of 76 patients (14-76 years old; mean, 37 years; male/female ratio, 63/11) with a traumatic aortic injury were admitted to our hospital between 1981 and 2003. Six patients died within 1 to 9 days of another associated severe traumatic lesion.

[Towards a new management of acute traumatic aortic ruptures].

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and safety of endovascular repair in acute traumatic aortic rupture on the basis of our experience with 16 patients.

Materials And Methods: From January 1996 to December 2001,16 patients, with a mean age 36 years, underwent repair of traumatic rupture of the aorta with the use of stent-grafts. All patients presented with coexisting injuries and 9 of 16 patients were hemodynamically unstable because of other injury.

Urological complications of laparoscopic surgery: experience with 350 procedures at a single center.

Purpose: We assessed our experience with urological complications of laparoscopic surgery in regard to incidence, etiology, treatment and possible prevention.

Materials And Methods: A total of 350 laparoscopic procedures were performed at our institution between June 1993 and December 1999 in 206 men and 139 women. These procedures included pelvic lymph node dissection in 102, bladder neck suspension in 99, adrenalectomy in 54, varicocelectomy in 23, pyeloplasty in 22, nephrectomy in 20, treatment of benign renal pathologies, including cyst, diverticula and calculi, in 13, genitourinary prolapse repair in 11 and miscellaneous procedures in 6 patients.