OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of aortic stent grafting in emergency treatment of traumatic rupture of the descending thoracic aorta in patients with multiple injuries. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Cardiothoracic surgery facility of a tertiary referral hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Between September 2001 and September 2002, four patients who had sustained a blunt injury to the c...

You have accessJournal of UrologyMisc. Benign Disease & Transplant Renovascular (V02)1 Sep 2021V02-01 NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN ROBOT-ASSISTED KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: IMPROVING SURGICAL PERFORMANCES, EXPANDING THE INDICATION Alberto Piana, Angelo Territo, Andrea Gallioli, Matteo Fontana, Pietro Diana, José Maria Gaya, Oscar Rodriguez Faba, Jorge Huguet, Pavel Gavrilov, Asier Mercadé, Jose Daniel Subi...

Increasingly more diffuse and complex atherosclerotic lesions are encountered in coronary bypass surgery. Although coronary endarterectomy has been performed for a long time, it possesses risks of mortality and morbidity. For LAD techniques such as closure with saphenous patch and patch + anastomosis with LIMA are used following endarterectomy. In this case series, we aimed to present our exper...

BackgroundVascular access closure is essential in large-bore arteriotomy procedures, such as transcatheter aortic valve replacement. ​Suture-based devices are frequently used for vascular closure. MANTA (Teleflex) a collagen plug–based device to achieve hemostasis with evolving efficacy and safety data. This study aimed evaluate plug-based versus suture-based following procedures.MethodsWe cond...