Clampless 2 Device: Experimental Study of a Lateral Aorto-Prosthetic Anastomosic Device Without Clamping or Suturing.

Background: To offer an alternative to conventional techniques of lateral prosthetic anastomosis on arteries which require a long training, and impose an extensive open surgery, we are proposing the clampless 2 device (C2D) implanted by a simple arterial puncture and allows a lateral implantation of a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) vascular graft in an artery, without arterial clamping or suture.

Methods: C2D is a "T" shaped 25-mm long and 8-mm diameter Nitinol stent with a 6-mm PTFE graft prosthesis mounted laterally on the stent, and implanted in an artery, via a 21-French sheath, and a compliant balloon inflation. In vitro testing of the C2D was first performed on a bench including a segment of a 7-mm internal diameter pig abdominal aorta.

Case Report: Mycotic common carotid artery pseudoaneurysm in a child. A case report.

Extracranial carotid artery aneurysms in children are extremely rare, nevertheless associated with a great potential of thromboembolic episodes and rupture especially those with mycotic origin. The surgical treatment is very challenging, and there is still a controversy concerning revascularisation after the resection of the aneurysm. In this manuscript, we report the observation of an 8-year-old boy with the medical history of Leukemia who is admitted urgently for a mycotic right common carotid artery aneurysm, occurring after a chemoport infection who was operated on in our cardiovascular surgery department with surgical resection and ligation.

[The POSSUM: a good scoring system for predicting mortality in elderly patients undergoing emergency surgery?].

Introduction: POSSUM (Physiologic and Operative Severity Score for the enumeration of Mortality and morbidity) is a scoring system for predicting mortality which is largely used in elective aortic and abdominal surgery. The aim of our study was to validate POSSUM with regards to elderly patients (> 70 years) undergoing digestive emergency surgery. We wanted to determine the optimal threshold for POSSUM, consisting of a physiological score and of an operative score for predicting mortality in this population.