Laparoscopic repair of post traumatic diaphragmatic hernia
John-Paul Bellistri, MD, Edward Kwon, MD, Ajay Chopra, MD. Jacobi Medical Center. Background The incidence of diaphragmatic rupture after blunt thoracoabdominal trauma has an incidence ranging from 1% to 3%1. Early identification and diagnosis remains a challenge. Among numerous retrospective studies, increase in Injury Severity Score appears most frequently with statistical significance. Traumatic diaphragmatic hernia… Continue Reading
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- Video Loop Presentations
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Laparoscopic Removal of Hiatal Mesh
Grant O Lee, MD, Hui Sen Chong, MD. Department of Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Background: Hiatal hernia repairs are known to have a high recurrence rate, with opinions divided between the use of mesh and type of mesh for crural reinforcement during a repair. Recent data suggest that mesh reinforcement is associated… Continue Reading
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- Video Loop Presentations
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Laparoscopic Bochdalek Hernia Repair
David A Santos, MD, Nina N Bowman, DO, Clifford C Eke, MD, FACS. Kaiser Permanente Southern California Fontana/Ontario Medical Center. Background: Bochdalek hernias are rare entities in adults and usually present as bowel obstruction. Asymptomatic hernias, as diagnosed on computed tomography, have an incidence of 0.17% in the general population. The optimal repair of a… Continue Reading
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- Video Loop Presentations
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Single Incision Transumbilical Laparoscopic Bilateral Inguinal Hernia Repair (TEP)
Giovanni Dapri, MD, PhD, FACS, Leonardo Gerard, MD, Viola Zulian, MD, Maria Bortes, MD, Jean Bruyns, MD, Guy-Bernard Cadiere, MD, PhD. European School of Laparoscopic Surgery, Brussels, Belgium. Background: Laparoscopic repair of inguinal hernia by totally extra-peritoneal mesh placement (TEP) has been popularized. Recently, with the advent of single-incision transumbilical laparoscopy, this procedure has to… Continue Reading
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- Video Loop Presentations
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Laparoscopic Mesh Repair of Post-Traumatic Complex Suprapubic and Bilateral Inguinal Hernias
Bestoun Ahmed, MD, FRCS, Chester Royals, MD, Ziad Awad, MD, Michael Nussbaum, MD, FACS. University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville. Laparoscopy has been proven to be an efficient approach to treat abdominal wall hernias. We present a Video on laparoscopic mesh repair of a complex post-traumatic suprapubic and bilateral inguinal hernias. The patient sustained… Continue Reading
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- Video Loop Presentations
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Laparascopic Flank Hernia Repair
Jonathan P Dean, MD, Bruce Ramshaw, MD, FACS. Halifax Health, Advanced Hernia Solutions. This video presents a variety of laparoscopic flank hernia repairs to demonstrate the principles of wide mesh coverage and secure fixation. In addition, a variety of mesh choices and locations are shown. Continue Reading
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- Video Loop Presentations
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Laparoscopic Morgagni Hernia Repair
Adrian Park, MD, FACS, Courtney Doyle, MD. Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, Maryland. This video represents repair of a Morgagni hernia, a rare congenital diaphragmatic hernia. The technique employed is repair without mesh implantation, utilizing transabdominal interrupted sutures. Continue Reading
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- Video Loop Presentations
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Laparoscopic Repair of a Missed Traumatic Right Diaphragmatic Hernia Containing Colon and Liver
B. Fernando Santos, MD, Thadeus L Trus, MD. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Lebanon, NH. Traumatic right diaphragmatic hernias are rare, and if missed can present in a delayed fashion with herniation of the intestines and infrequently the liver. This video demonstrates a laparoscopic approach to such a hernia, offering a minimally invasive alternative… Continue Reading
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- Video Loop Presentations
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Laparoscopic Repair of Foramen of Winslow Hernia
George DeNoto, MD, Shabana Perveen, MD, Shelish Garg, MD. Northshore -LIJ Hofstra University Health system.. The reviewed patient presented to the emergency room at our hospital with five hours of severe epigastric pain. He underwent an emergent CT scan to rule out any intra-abdominal pathology. Review of the CT scan by a radiologist found evidence… Continue Reading
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- Video Loop Presentations
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Utilization of biologic mesh materials in repair of incisional hernias among peritoneal dialysis patients: A novel approach to optimizing outcomes
Florias A Morfesis, MD, Brian P Rose, MPH. Owen Drive Surgical Clinic of Fayetteville. Introduction: The use of mesh in ventral/incisional hernia repair has been well described. Currently, there are a number of mesh materials available for implantation, including those that are purely synthetic, partially biodegradable, full biodegradable, and biologic scaffold. The later lacks widespread… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Selective Placement of Synthetic Mesh During Clean-Contaminated Laparoscopic Bariatric Procedures is Safe
Edward J Hannoush, MD, Kurt E Roberts, MD, Robert L Bell, MD, Andrew J Duffy, MD. Yale University. Yale School of Medicine.. Introduction: Simultaneous laparoscopic repair of abdominal ventral hernia with intraperitoneal synthetic mesh in patients undergoing laparoscopic-stapled bariatric surgery is generally considered ill advised due to the assumed higher risk of infectious complications. However… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
The clinical trial of the ideal mesh placement for the laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair with the elasticated mesh
Hideto Oishi, MD, Fumi Maeda, MD, Takeshi Ishita, MD, Masayuki Ishii, MD, Takuya Satou, MD, Takayuki Iino, MD, Hidekazu Kuramuchi, MD, Shunsuke Onizawa, MD, Eiichi Hirai, MD, Mie Hamano, MD, Tutomu Nakamura, MD, Tatsuo Araida, MD. Yachiyo Medical Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University. Introduction: The existing mesh (wired mesh, pre-shaped mesh, etc.) for inguinal hernia… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Early Experience with a New Anatomical Mesh for Endo-laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair
Sujith I Wijerathne, MBBS, MRCS, Narendra Agarwal, MBBS, MS, Dino A Liem, MD, Davide Lomanto, MD, PhD, FAMS. Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, Department of Surgery, National University Health System, Singapore. Background and objective Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair has advanced over the past decade together with the development of new biomaterials to improve clinical outcome and… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Single Incision Laparoscopic Transabdominal preperitoneal mesh hernioplasty for inguinal hernia in 100 Japanese patients.
Kazuo Tanoue, MD, PhD, FACS, Hidenobu Okino, MD, PhD, Masamitsu Kanazawa, MD, PhD, Kiichiro Ueno, MD, PhD. Ueno Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan. (BACKGROUND) Inguinal hernia repair is the most common procedure in general and visceral surgery worldwide. Laparoscopic Transabdominal preperitoneal mesh hernioplasty (TAPP) has been also popular surgical method in Japan. Single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS)… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias
Open inguinal hernia repair with the combined use of a self-fixating mesh and elective neurectomy: a long-term follow-up
Dimitrios Tsakayannis, MD, PhD, Andreas Kiriakopoulos, MD, Dimitrios Linos, MD. Department of Surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens,Greece. BACKGROUND : Mesh fixation and nerve entrapment are potential causes of immediate and chronic postoperative pain in open inguinal hernia repair. To minimize these risks, a self-gripping mesh along with routine elective neurectomy was used in a series of… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Abdominal Wall Hernias