title: [Rapid progress in vascular surgery].
abstract: Rapidly developed new technologies caused a lot of change in vascular surgery in the last few years. So today there are a lot of new therapeutic options, which we are using with impressive speed directly in humanbeing. We look at new treatment modalities in the surgery of the carotid artery and the abdominal aortic aneurysm.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Klinik, Kantonsspital Luzern.
authors.forename: M Szente
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Varga
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000639:trends; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000639:trends; D016893:Carotid Stenosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D016894:Endarterectomy, Carotid / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000639:trends*; D011474:Prosthesis Design / Q000639:trends; D015607:Stents / Q000639:trends; D020521:Stroke / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D015996:Survival Rate; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000639:trends*