title: Totally videoendoscopic descending thoracic aorta to femoral artery bypass.
abstract: Descending thoracic aorta to femoral artery bypass is an effective and safe procedure for the treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease when an approach to the abdominal aorta is undesirable. The major limitation of this technique has resulted from the morbidity rate associated with thoracotomy in a relatively high-risk vascular surgery population. As a minimally invasive procedure, videoendoscopy has been shown to improve the patient postoperative course and comfort in the field of general and thoracic surgery. The same benefits could be expected from a videoendoscopic surgery involving the thoracic aorta. We report what we think to be the first totally videoendoscopic descending thoracic aorta to femoral artery bypass.
authors.affiliation: Department of Vascular Surgery, Fondation-Hôpital Saint-Joseph, Paris, France. sumio_fukui@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Sumio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fukui
authors.forename: Nikolaos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Paraskevas
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Soury
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gigou
authors.forename: Marie-Dominique
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Petit
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Laurian
mesh_terms: D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery*; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D005263:Femoral Artery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000379:methods*