A Flexible Endoscopic Surgical-Platform Enables Pure Transrectal Colon Cancer Surgery
Erwin Rieder, MD, Mark H Whiteford, MD, Lee L Swanstrom, MD. MIS Program, Legacy Health, Portland, OR Natural orifice transrectal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) approach makes immense sense for incisionless colorectal surgery, as access colotomy can be incorporated into subsequent anastomosis and thereby provides a clear-cut patient benefit compared to standard laparoscopy. However, adequate oncologic transrectal… Continue Reading
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A New Endoscopic Interventional Technique for the Percutaneous Trans-Esophageal Gastro-Tubing (PTEG)
Hideto Oishi, MD PhD, Noriyasu Shirotani, MD PhD, Shingo Kameoka, MD PhD. Division of Digestive and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yachiyo Medical Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University Background: In 1994, we invented Percutaneous Trans-esophageal Gastro-tubing (PTEG) for the patients who difficult to perform Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG). We already performed 176 cases of PTEG,… Continue Reading
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A Novel Snake Robot for NOTES
Michael M Awad, MD PhD, Shyam Thakkar, MD, Howie Choset, PhD. Washington University in St. Louis, Drexel University, Carnegie Mellon University OBJECTIVE The emergence of laparoendoscopic technology has revolutionized the practice of surgery over the last 20 years. However, many complex procedures are still performed in an open fashion because of limitations of this technology.… Continue Reading
A Pure Natural Orifice Transrectal Approach for Oncologic Resection of the Recto-Sigmoid: an Experimental Randomized Comparison to Conventional Laparoscopy
Erwin Rieder, MD, Georg O Spaun, MD, Yashodhan S Khajanchee, MD, Danny V Martinec, BS, Brittany N Arnold, BS, Lee L Swanstrom, MD, Mark H Whiteford, MD. MIS Program, Legacy Health, Portland, OR Objective: Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) has long been criticized for breaching an otherwise intact organ. A transrectal approach though, makes… Continue Reading
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- Podium Presentations
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Acute Appendicitis After Colonoscopy: A Case Report and Review of Literature
Ming-Li Wang, MD, Kuldeep Singh, MD, Federick Sabido, MD. Staten Island University Hospital Introduction: Acute appendicitis is an extremely rare complication of colonoscopy. Only 13 cases of acute appendicitis after colonoscopy have been reported in the English literature. We present a case of acute appendicitis after colonoscopy and performed a literature review. Methods and Procedures:… Continue Reading
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Adjunct Use of Self-Expanding Covered Stent in the Treatment of Non-Eroded Stenosis By Silatic Gastric Ring
Seiichi Kitahama, MD, Valerie J Halpin, MD FACS, Lee L Swanstrom, MD FACS. Baylor College of Medicine, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery INTRODUCTION The silastic ring gastric bypass (SRGB) was introduced by Fobi in 1989, in an effort to combine the advantages of the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass with those of the vertical banded gastroplasty… Continue Reading
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Broad Clinical Utilization of NOTES. Is It Safe ?
Santiago Horgan, MD, Ozanan R Meireles, MD, Garth Jacobsen, MD, Bryan Sandler, MD, Kari Thompson, MD, Toshio Katagiri, MD, Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD, Michael Sedrak, MD, Thomas Savides, MD, Alberto Ferreres, MD, Saniea Majid, MD, Sheetal Nijhawan, MD, . University of California San Diego, San Diego - CA Background: NOTES has been the focus of several… Continue Reading
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- Podium Presentations
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- Endolumenal / NOTES
Catastrophic Splenic Injury Following Colonoscopy
Leopoldo M Baccaro, MD, Hamed Taheri, MD, Stanley Ogu, MD, Natascha Rodney, MSIII, Harjeet Kohli, MD. Easton Hospital General Surgery Department BACKGROUND: Splenic rupture following colonoscopy is a disastrous complication that carries a high mortality and must be suspected and addressed immediately. METHOD: This is a case report with review of literature. RESULTS: A 76… Continue Reading
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Comparison of Early Morbidity Parameters Between Single Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and Classic Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Prospective Controlled Trial
Pankaj Garg, title, Jai D Thakur, MBBS, Rajeev Kumar, MBBS MS, Ashok K Attri, MBBS MS, Jeremy Song, BS. 1. SGHKS Charitable Hospital, Sohana, Mohali, Punjab, India 2. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA. 3.Government Medical College, Chandigarh, India. 4. Simches Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA Aim- To compare pain… Continue Reading
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Comparison of Symptomatic Outcomes of Endoscopic Fundoplication with Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication
Kellie McFarlin, MD, Vic Velanovich, MD. Henry Ford Hospital Background: Endoscopic fundoplication with the Esophyx device for the surgical treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication in selected patients with small hiatal hernias. There have been no randomized trials comparing the two techniques. Anecdotal reports suggest… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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Comparison of Transrectal NOTES® Approaches in a Cadaveric Appendectomy Model: Anterior Is Better
Byron F Santos, MD, Eric S Hungness, MD, Nathaniel J Soper, MD, Anne-Marie Boller, MD. Northwestern University Department of Surgery, Chicago, IL Introduction: A transrectal NOTES approach is a potentially promising alternative to transgastric or transvaginal approaches for intraperitoneal procedures. Although both anterior and posterior transrectal approaches have been described in pre-clinical models, the optimal… Continue Reading
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Development of Bioabsorbable Materials Aimed At a Closure Following the NOTES Transluminal Procedure
Masayasu Aikawa, MD, Mitsuo Miyazawa, Prof, Katsuya Okada, MD, Yosuke Ueno, MD, Yasuko Toshimitsu, MD, Kojun Okamoto, MD, Isamu Koyama, Prof. Saitama Medical University International Medical Center Aim: Endoscopic procedures represent an advance from conventional laparoscopic operations, with NOTES seeing clinical applications. However, in translumenal procedures, there can be difficulty with the closure of the… Continue Reading
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Ectopic Pancreas in the Stomach Presenting As an Inflammatory Abdominal Mass
Takayuki Tokutsu, MD, Toshiyuki Mori, MD, Noritsugu Abe, MD, Tomokazu Kishiki, MD, Hiroyoshi Matsuoka, MD, Tadahiko Masaki, MD, Masanori Sugiyama, MD. Kyorin university A 32-year-old woman with ectopic pancreas in the stomach, presenting as inflammatory mass, is presented. A computed tomographic (CT) scan demonstrated a mass adjacent to the gastric antrum, which was diagnosed inflammatory… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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Endoscopic Ampullectomy
Myron C Stokes, MD, Kirpal Singh, MD FACS. St. Vincent/Indiana University Fellowship of Advanced Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Ultrasound Ampullary neoplasms account for approximately five percent of all gastrointestinal neoplasms. Local resection of the Ampulla of Vater was first described in 1899 by Halsted. It was not until the 1980's that the first endoscopic ampullectomy was… Continue Reading
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Endoscopic Infrared Coagulation: Broad Range of Novel and Practical Utility Ranging From Internal Hemorrhoids to NOTES
Elisabeth C McLemore, MD, Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD, Rudy Rai, MD, Junaid Siddiqui, MD, P Patrick Basu, MD, Mousab Tabbaa, MD, Michael S Epstein, MD. University of California, San Diego Objective: A novel endoscopic delivery system for infrared coagulation therapy has recently been designed and approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in human… Continue Reading