Robotic Mini-Invasive Interventions in Vascular Surgery
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Scripta Medica Brno |
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| Field | Surgery incl. transplantology |
| Keywords | Robotic da Vinci System; vascular surgery |
| Description | The Centre of Robotic Surgery one of three centres in the Czech Republic was founded in the Faculty Hospital of St. Anna in Brno in 2006. Nowadays, robotic surgery has been more and more frequently an alternative for traditional vascular surgical interventions in the aorto-iliac-femoral region.Totally 14 patients underwent the surgery within May 2006 - February 2007. All of them were males, mean age 61.8 years. The following interventions were applied: iliac-femoral bypass in 1 case, aorto-femoral unilateral bypass in 5 cases, aorto-bifemoral bypass in 5 subjects, the abdominal aorta aneurysm in 3 cases. |