SAGES 2009 Annual Meeting
Surgical Spring Week Presentations

April 22-24, 2009
Phoenix Convention Center
Phoenix, Arizona

2009 SAGES Scientific Session Presentations:
Esophageal / Gastric Surgery

Moderators: Nathaniel Soper, MD and Leena Khaitan, MD

S032 TRANSORAL INCISIONLESS FUNDOPLICATION FOR GERD: EARLY NORTH AMERICAN RESULTS Sebastian V Demyttenaere, MD, Simon Bergman, MD, Joel Anderson, MD, Rebecca Dettorre, BA, Dean J Mikami, MD, W Scott Melvin, MD, The Ohio State University Medical Centre, Columbus, OH

S033 MANAGEMENT OF ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATIONS Guido Schumacher, MD, Sven C Schmidt, MD, Sascha S Chopra, MD, Stefan Strauch, Wilfried Veltzke, MD, Peter Neuhaus, MD, Departments of General-, Visceral-, and Transplantation Surgery; Department of Gastroenterology, Charité University Hospital Berlin, Germany

V010 LAPAROSCOPIC TREATMENT OF BILATERAL ESOPHAGEAL EPIPHRENIC DIVERTICULA Emanuele Lo Menzo, MD, Alberto Iglesias, MD, Seth A Spector, MD, Jose M Martinez, MD, Diya Alaedeen, MD, Atul K Madan, MD, Gustavo Placencia, MD, Miami VA Healthcare System, University of Miami. Miami, FL

V011 LAPAROENDOSCOPIC SINGLE SITE HELLER MYOTOMY AND ANTERIOR FUNDOPLICATION Sharona B Ross, MD, Connor A Morton, BS, Emily Kramer, BS, John E Mullinax, MD, Alexander S Rosemurgy, MD, University of South Florida

V012 THORACOLAPAROSCOPIC IVOR LEWIS ESOPHAGOGASTRECTOMY WITH A HANDSEWN ANASTOMOSIS IN PRONE POSITION Giovanni Dapri, MD, Jacques Himpens, MD, Guy Bernard Cadiere, PhD, European School of Laparoscopic Surgery, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

S034 GASTRIC ELECTRIC STIMULATION FOR SEVERE GASTROPARESIS Steven M Yood, MD, Stacie E Perlman, MD, Marianne Ulcickas Yood, PhD, Rajan Chahal, MD, Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Haven, CT

V013 LAPAROSCOPIC COLLIS-NISSEN FUNDOPLICATION IN A PATIENT WITH TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA REPAIR WITH RECURRENT HIATAL HERNIA AND GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX Anthony C Chin*, MD, Steven S Rothenberg^, MD, ^Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children Denver, CO; *Childrens Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

S035 ISCHAEMIC CONDITIONING INFLUENCE FATE OF THE GASTRIC CONDUIT AND QUALITY OF LIFE OUTCOMES FOLLOWING MINIMALLY INVASIVE OESOPHAGECTOMY Darmarajah Veeramootoo, Rajeev Parameswaran, Rakesh Krishnadas, Richard G Berrisford, MD, Saj A Wajed, MD, Department of Thoracic and Upper GI Surgery, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, UK

S036 A SIMPLIFIED TECHNIQUE FOR INTRATHORACIC STOMACH REPAIR: LAPAROSCOPIC FUNDOPLICATION WITH VICRYL MESH AND BIOGLUE CRURAL REINFORCEMENT Joerg Zehetner, MD, John C Lipham, MD, Shahin Ayazi, MD, Arzu Oezcelik, MD, Emmanuele Abate, MD, Weisheng Chen, MD, Steven R DeMeester, MD, Farzaneh Banki, MD, Jeffrey A Hagen, MD, Melissa Dickey, RN, Tom R DeMeester, MD, Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

SAGES acknowledges an unrestricted educational grant in support of this session from Karl Storz Endoscopy-America.