OBJECTIVE To report on the original surgical management of a patient with severe trauma of both legs involving anastomosis of an omentum free flap with an emergency vascular bypass. METHODS After stabilization of the knee with an external fixator, a femoral-tibial bypass graft was performed to revascularize the leg with the contralateral great saphenous vein. Ten days later, an omentum free f...

AIM Micro-vascular anastomosis is a difficult art. It can be learnt and perfected only by practice using vessels of small animals in the laboratory. The purpose of the study was to practice various anastomotic techniques using rat femoral vessels and study the patency rates. MATERIAL AND METHODS Sixty-four Sprague-Dawley rats were used in the study. The following procedures were conducted on ...

BACKGROUND Microvascular anastomosis remains one of the most technically sensitive aspects of free-tissue transfer reconstructions. Despite the availability of various mechanical anastomotic coupling systems for human clinical use during the last 8 years, reported clinical series remain rare. OBJECTIVE To describe a clinical experience in applying a mechanical microvascular anastomotic coupli...

The objective of this study was to describe the different surgical approaches involved in harvesting and heterotopic autotransplantation of intact ovaries with microvascular anastomosis. Twenty-one synchronized Merino sheep underwent harvesting of their intact ovaries with vascular pedicles. Autotransplantation was performed with fresh (n = 6) and cryopreserved-thawed (C-T; n = 15) ovaries. The...

•Intraoperative injury of the obturator nerve is not an infrequent complication of gynecological surgeries.•This injury can occur in association with pelvic lymphadenectomy for uterine or cervical cancer.•This manuscript demonstrates an alternative technique for the obturator nerve repair, when primary end to end anastomosis is not possible.

Today successful kidney transplantation procedures, techniques and immunosuppression protocols are a consequence of extensive research on animal models. During every transplantation surgery there are two crucial points for the success of the entire procedure: vascular (arterial end venous) and ureteral or ureterovesical anastomosis. Renal artery and vein of the donor kidney can be anastomosed e...

Background: Our aim was to investigate the motor outcome, effects on the diaphragm muscle, and delimit the regained nerve conduction capacity of the transected phrenic nerve, following its reconstruction to prepare the subjects to electrophrenic respiration. Methods: All one-year-old 12 healthy pigs (German Landrace) weighing 45 to 50 kg were used in the study. Three groups, each of which consi...