Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

New abdominal aortic aneurysm study results reported from M. Coggia et al

Published in Telemedicine Law Weekly, August 16th, 2008

"This study describes our experience of total laparoscopic juxtarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (JAAA) repair. Between February 2002 and October 2007, we performed 148 total laparoscopic AAA repairs, including a subset of 13 patients who underwent a laparoscopic JAAA repair," researchers in Boulogne, France report.

"Median age was 70 years (range, 50-81 years). Median aneurysm size was 55 mm (range, 50-80 mm). Eight patients were in American Society of Anesthesiologist class II, and five were in class III. We used laparoscopic transperitoneal left retrorenal approaches and suprarenal clamping in all patients. We implanted tube grafts in nine patients and bifurcated...

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Source: Telemedicine Law Weekly (2008-08-16)

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