Aniket K Sakharpe, MD, MPH, Jakub Wilhelm, MD, Nida Mumtaz, BS, Abdul Badr, MD, Robert Bloch, MD, FACS, Leopoldo Baccaro, MD, George Ibrahim, MD. Drexel University and Easton Hospital. Diverticulosis commonly affects the geriatric patients, 10-15% of whom ultimately develop diverticulitis. Diverticulitis has many known complications, such as the formation of phlegmon, fistulas, bowel obstruction, […]
Vicente Gonzalez-Ruiz, MD, Miguel D Santana, MD, David Valadez-Caballero, MD. Mexico City General Hospital / High Speciality Regional Hospital Zumpango. Introduction: The economic and ethical considerations about perform procedures on patients during the training program of residents have been widely discussed but it is unquestionable that laparoscopic surgery requires a highly qualified staff and the […]
Christina A Del Pin, MD, FACS, Richard S Feinn, PhD, John Train, MD. Quinnipiac University/Frank H.Netter MD SOM. Introduction: Right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain work-up for appendicitis (AP) has evolved from a wholly approach, to a more imaged based one. Delays in diagnosis due to non-diagnostic imaging, necessitating laparoscopy for critical treatment decisions, urges a revisit to the […]
Martin D Avery, MD, Rana Pullatt, Md. Medical University of South Carolina. Introduction: Malrotation in morbidly obese patients is rare, but has been reported. Most of these are discovered incidentally during laparoscopic gastric bypass. Controversy exists whether the discovery of malrotation during laparoscopic gastric bypass necessitates performing the LADDs procedure at the time of surgery […]
Ziad T Awad, MD, FACS, Justin C McCarty, BS, Michael Herman, DO, FACP, Jose Nieto, DO, FACP. University of Florida – Jacksonville. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Pancreatic stents placed by ERCP are common in the treatment of benign and malignant pancreatic and biliary disease. Proximal migration of the stent into the duct occurs in 2% to […]
Fredrick Che, MD, Nojan Toomari, DO, Ninh Nguyen, MD. University of California Irvine Medical Center. 69 year old male with a history of esophageal adenocarcinoma status post laparoscopic and thoracoscopic Ivor Lewis esophagectomy, presented with abdominal pain and symptoms of bowel obstruction. Images performed showed a giant type 4 hiatal hernia with transverse and descending […]
Goutaro Katsuno, MD, PhD, Masaki Fukunaga, MD, PhD, Yoshifumi Lee, MD, PhD, Kunihiko Nagakari, MD, PhD, Masahiko Sugano, MD, PhD, Masaru Suda, MD, PhD, Yoshito Iida, MD, PhD, Seiichirou Yoshikawa, MD, PhD, Masakazu Ouchi, MD, PhD, Yoshitomo Itou, MD, PhD, Yoshinori Hirasaki, MD, PhD, Daisuke Azuma, MD, Shintaro Kohama, MD, Jun Nomoto, MD. Department of […]
Kamran Samakar, MD, MA, Travis J Mckenzie, MD, Ali Tavakkoli, MD, Scott A Shikora, MD. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Background: The effect of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) on gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is controversial. Although concomitant hiatal hernia repair (HHR) at the time of LSG is common, there is little data on […]
Ibrahim A Salama, MDPhD. Ibrahim Abdelkader Salama M.D1, Mohamed houssani M.D2, Elamir Mahmoud Amir M.D3.. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of laparoscopic ally treated hydatid cysts of the liver in our institutional experience. METHODS: from November 2009 to December 2012, 58 patients underwent laparoscopic treatment of the […]
Jeanine Arkenbosch, BS, Hirochimi Miyagaki, MD, PhD, Hmc Shantha Kumara, PhD, Xiaohong Yan, PhD, Vesna Cekic, RN, Richard L Whelan, MD. Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, St Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center. INTRODUCTION: Postoperative morbidity after reversal of Hartmann’s procedure remains high. Proponents of minimally invasive methods believe the laparoscopic approach may […]