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 […]
Robert Wu, Alexis Porte, Fatima Haggar, Isabelle Raiche, Husein Moloo, Jean Claude Gauthier, Amy Neville, Jean Denis Yelle, Joseph Mamazza. The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa. Introduction Postoperative pain control remains a major challenge, even in laparoscopic surgery such as gastric bypass. Effective pain control reduces the risk of postoperative complication such as deep vein […]
Carmen L Mueller, MD, Lorenzo E Ferri, MD, PHD. Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre. The laparoscopic, transabdominal approach has become a standard technique for paraesophageal hernia repair, and laparoscopic distal gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy has been shown to have equivalent oncologic outcomes to open surgery. The concurrent existence of both surgical problems in […]
Y Watanabe, MD, E Bilgic, E M Ritter, MD, S Schwaitzberg, MD, P A Kaneva, MSc, K I Hoffman, PhD, J R Korndorffer, MD, D J Scott, MD, A Okrainec, MD, M T Odonnell, MD, L S Feldman, MD, G M Fried, MD, M C Vassiliou, MD. McGill University Health Centre, Tulane University, Uniformed Services […]
Yunqiang Cai, PhD, Xubao Liu, PhD, Xin Wang, PhD, Bing Peng, PhD. Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University. Background: Laparoscopic splenectomy (LS) is considered as the gold standard procedure for patients with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). In many institutions, low platelet counts (< 30 × 109/L) contraindicated LS. This study aimed to investigate […]
Fernando Dip, MD, Mayank Roy, MD, Emanuele Lo Menzo, MD, Conrad Simpfendorfer, MD, Samuel Szomstein, MD, Raul Rosenthal, MD. Cleveland Clinic Florida. Background: Intra-operative fluorescent cholangiography (FC) has been described as a novel tool to identify the extrahepatic biliary anatomy during laparosocpic cholecystectomy (LC). We investigated the reasons why FC should be used routinely in […]
Alex W Lois, BS, Matthew J Frelich, MS, Matthew I Goldblatt, MD, Nedra L Ohm, RN, Catherine R English, RN, James R Wallace, MD, PhD, Jon C Gould, MD. Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin. INTRODUCTION: Our objective was to examine the effect of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) on […]
In Woong Han, MD, Do Young Lee, MD, Oh Chong Kwon, MD, Min Gu Oh, MD, PhD, Seung Eun Lee, MD, PhD. Departments of Surgery, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Goyang, South Korea. INTRODUCTION: The postcholecystectomy syndrome (PCS) is characterized by abdominal pain following gallbladder removal. The purpose of this trial is to determine whether […]
M Ankersmit, MSc, Jwj de Haan, Mhgm van der Pas, MD, Majm Jacobs, MD, PhD, Nct van Grieken, MD, PhD, Wjhj Meijerink, MD, PhD. VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Introduction We present a novel technology for laparoscopic sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping in colorectal cancer patients. The sentinel lymph node (SLN) procedure is […]
Tamer N Abdelbaki, MD, MRCS, Msc, Wael N Abdelsalam, MD, Khaled M Katri, MD, Mohamed Sharaan, MD, Mohamed K El Saidy, MD, Tamer M Mohamed, MBBCH, Elsaid Elkayal, MD. University of Alexandria Faculty of Medicine. BACKGROUND: The prevalence of obesity continues to rise worldwide at an alarming rate. This trend was met with an evolution […]
Ayman E Ahmed, MBBS, Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD, Susan M Walters, RN, H. Tracy Davido, MD. University of Minnesota. Introduction: Healthcare costs continue to rise while reimbursements are decreasing; furthermore, these reimbursements are increasingly tied to quality outcome metrics. Therefore, methods of improving operative efficiency, consistency and cost reduction are imperative. Prior studies have delineated process variation as a determinant […]
Fumihiko Fujita, MD, PhD, FACS, Yasuhiro Torashima, MD, PhD, Chika Sakimura, MD, Yusuke Inoue, MD, Daisuke Kawahara, MD, Akira Yoneda, MD, PhD, Kengo Kanetaka, MD, PhD, FACS, Mitsuhisa Takatsuki, MD, PhD, FACS, Shigeki Minami, MD, PhD, Tamotsu Kuroki, MD, PhD, FACS, Susumu Eguchi, MD, PhD, FACS. Department of Surgery, Nagasaki Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. […]
Edip Akpinar, MD, Sheila C. Marmalojes, MD, Mohamed S. Alshal, MD, Jc Jimenez, MD, D Horkan, MD, Ja Astudillo, MD, Jose M. Martinez, MD, FACS. Department of LaparoEndoscopic Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, FL. Background: Postoperative esophageal strictures may happen in 30% of patients at the anastomotic site following reconstruction for esophagectomy using gastric or […]
Gadiyaram Srikanth, MCh, Neel Shetty, DNB. Institute of Gastroenterology, Global Hospitals, Bangalore. Background: Challenges of liver manipulation,parenchymal transection and hemostasis were hurdles in the progress of laparoscopic hepatectomy.Major hepatic resections demand a high level of surgical skill.Herein we report a 57 year old male patient who is a follow up case of adenocarcinoma of rectum […]
Ruchir Puri, MD, John A Stauffer, MD, FACS, Horacio J Asbun, MD, FACS. Mayo Clinic, Florida. The video submission is a case presentation of a 55 y M who was found to have a gastrinoma in the third portion of the duodenum. He also had a more distal lesion concerning for multifocality. He underwent a […]