7 Oct 2007

the minimal invasive surgery on aorta disease


In the past , surgery on aorta disease remains to be one of the major procedures in the realm of vascular surgery . The mortality and morbidity remains to be the major concern of those patients suffered from the disease. Thanks to the advance of the medical technology, nowadays we are able to treat lots of aorta dissease in a less invasive fashion. The invention of arotic stentgrafting (endovascualr treatment; EVAR or TEVAR) makes the procedure more safe and less painful for the patients.
Finally, the stentgraft are available in Taiwan sinced 2005. And in our hospital, we vascular surgeons soon adopted the new technique to treat our patients. We can now treat a giant thoracic aneurysm or abdominal aneurysm through tiny holes in the patients groin area!
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