Electrofusion for Femoral Approach in Vascular Surgery: A Randomized Prospective Study

Local complications are frequent after femoral approach in vascular surgery and are often at the cause of a healing delay. Electrofusion showed its effectiveness to decrease the incidence of complications in general surgery but was never tested in vascular surgery. The aim of our study was to evaluate if the use of the electrofusion for the approach to the femoral vessels improved the one month healing by decreasing the local complications, in particular lymphatic.

Source: Annals of Vascular Surgery - July 25, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Flora Gouaillier-Vulcain, Etienne Marchand, Jean Picquet, Robert Martinez, Bernard Enon Tags: 29th Annual Meeting, French Society for Vascular Surgery (SCV) Source Type: research