VIDEO LAPAROSCOPIC TOTAL GASTRECTOMY – STEP BY STEP
Bruno Zilberstein, MD, PHD, FACS, Leandro Barchi, MD, PHD, Maurice Youssef, MD, Thiago Manesco, MD, Willy Petrini Souza, MD. GastromedLaparoscopic surgery has been increasingly applied to gastric cancer surgery. Gastrointestinal tract reconstruction totally done by laparoscopy also has been a challenge for those who developed this procedure. After introduction of laparoscopic stapling methods, the reconstruction… Continue Reading
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VATS versus Fibrinolytics for Treatment of Primary Pediatric Empyema in Otherwise Healthy Children
Joseph Balaban1, Lorrie Burkhalter2, Diana L Diesen3. 1UT Southwestern, Dallas, Tx, 2Children's Health Dallas, 3UT Southwestern, Department of Surgery; Children's Health DallasIntroduction: Traditionally, Video Assisted Thorascopic Surgery (VATS) decortication has been the gold standard treatment for pediatric empyema. Recent studies have shown that fibrinolytics via tube thoracostomy produced similar outcomes while being less invasive and… Continue Reading
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Utilization of Normal Saline injection in Tissue Planes to Facilitate Safe Tissue Dissection in Laparoscopic Surgery
Ghaith Khair, MD, FACS, Andrea Zaw, MD, Kuldeep Singh, MD, FACS, FASMBS, MBA. St agnes hospitalBackground: Lysis of adhesions though almost is routinely done in surgery, is neither routine nor benign procedures. It is fraught with injury to structures, intestines, infected wounds and fistula formation, with or without sepsis. Methods: A video clip describing normal saline injection… Continue Reading
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Utility of the incentive spirometer
Nicholas Morin, DO, George Blessen, RN, Erika King, MS, George Ferzli, MD. NYU Langone BrooklynIntroduction: There is uncertainty as to whether the incentive spirometer (IS) confers a clinical benefit or reduces inpatient pulmonary complications when correlated with the most common hospital diagnoses. Does the patient know how to use one correctly, is it prescribed for the… Continue Reading
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Using the platelet count as a predictor for venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing elective splenectomy
Peter Szasz, MD, PhD, Ali Ardestani, MD, Ali Tavakkoli, MD. Brigham and Women's HospitalBackground: Venous thromboembolic (VTE) events are an ongoing problem for patients undergoing splenectomy. Although the rates vary in the literature based on whether the case is performed in an open or laparoscopic manner, most of the studies to date have evaluated unselected… Continue Reading
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- Podium Presentations
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Using local anesthesia at time of closure for routine lap surgery
George Dejeu, Adrian M Maghiar, Octavian Maghiar, Dan Ciurtin, Marius Sfirlea, Codruta Macovei, Mihai Botea, Cipri Puscas, Calina Tarau, Erika Bimbo-Szuhai, Rodica Gilau, Paula Badea, Florin Fasie. Spital PelicanIn our institution, Surgery Clinic, Pelican Hospital in Oradea, Romania, we started studying the effect of using local anesthesia at the trocar sites at time of closure… Continue Reading
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Type IIIb Congenital Intestinal Atresia: A Case Report
Brian Bassiri-Tehrani, MD1, Alex Wang2, William Harris2, Edmund Kessler, MD1. 1Lenox Hill Hospital, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, 2SUNY Downstate Medical CenterIntestinal atresia is a congenital malformation that occurs in 1 out of 5,000 live births, with equal incidence in males and females. One out of three infants with intestinal atresia are premature. The… Continue Reading
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TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS PLANE BLOCK VERSUS PORT SITE INFILTRATION FOR POST-OPERATIVE ANALGESIA AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY – A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED TRIPLE BLINDED STUDY
Anubhav Vindal, MS, DNB, MRCSEd, FRCSGlas, FACS, FAIS, Hitesh Sarda, MBBS, Pawanindra Lal, MS, DNB, FRCSEd, FRCSGlas, FACS. Division of Minimal Access Surgery, Department of Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, IndiaIntroduction: Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is a regional anesthetic technique that provides analgesia to the parietal peritoneum, skin and muscles of the… Continue Reading
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Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach (TOETVA).
Kojo Wallace, MD, Amy Rosenbluth, MD, William Inabnet, MD, Aida Taye, MD. Mount Sinai St. Luke's and WestVideo presentation of a "Left Hemithyroidectomy using the Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach" (TOETVA). The patient underwent resection of a isthmus mass with involvement of the left thyroid lobe.Presented at the SAGES 2017 Annual Meeting in Houston, TX.Abstract… Continue Reading
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Totally laparoscopic versus open gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy – systematic review and meta-analysis of short-term outcomes
Grzegorz Torbicz, Natalia Gajewska, Magdalena Mizera, Nadia Sajuk, Kamil Rozmus, Jan Witowski, Piotr Malczak, MD, Piotr Major, MD, PhD, Michal Pedziwiatr, MD, PhD. 2nd Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, PolandIntroduction: This study aimed to evaluate short-term outcomes of laparoscopic approach in comparison to open surgery in gastric cancer through systematic review… Continue Reading
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The Importance of Integrating Minimally Invasive Surgery in Developing Nations
Charlotte Horne, MD, Godwin Onyema, MD, Afam Onyema, Kevin El-Hayek, MD. Cleveland ClinicLaparoscopic surgery has routinely become the standard approach and standard of care for numerous surgical procedures in the developed world. Currently, over 3.5 million laparoscopic procedures are performed annually in the United States1. However, many developing nations are still routinely performing these surgeries… Continue Reading
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THE CLINICAL USE OF INDOCYANINE GREEN AS A NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENT CONTRAST AGENT FOR IMAGE-GUIDED LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY
Konstantinos G Tsallis, Pr, Nikolaos Antoniou, Dr, Orestis Ioannidis, Ioannis Mantzoros, Savvas Simeonidis, Stathis Kotidis, Manousos-G Pramateutakis, Lydia Loutzidou, Dimitris Konstantaras, Stamatis Angelopoulos. Aristotle UniversityBackground: Advances in laparoscopic imaging the past decade has brought to light new achievements as major contributions to intraoperative decision during laparoscopic procedures. Among these are the use of high definition… Continue Reading
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Strategy for the treatment of elderly patients with Siewert type II esophagogastric junction cancer
Masazumi Sakaguchi, MD, PhD, Norihiro Shimoike, MD, Shin Akagawa, MD, PhD, Seiichiro Kanaya, MD, PhD. Osaka Red Cross HospitalBackground: There is a lack of clarity on the optimal surgical procedure for Siewert type II esophagogastric junction cancer (type II EGJ cancer). We proposed laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy (LPG) with esophagogastric tube reconstruction as the treatment of… Continue Reading
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SPLENIC HAMARTOMA, AN INUSUAL CASE OF SPLENOMEGALY
Jara Hernandez Gutierrez, Aurelio Francisco Aranzana Gomez, Beatriz Muñoz Jimenez, Juan S Malo Corral. CH ToledoIntroduction: Splenic hamartoma is a rare benign tumor, of which about 150 cases have been described in the literature since it was first described by Rokitansky in 1861. It is usually a casual finding in laparotomies or autopsies. They are usually… Continue Reading
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- Video Loop Presentations
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SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES OF LAPAROSCOPIC SPLEEN-PRESERVING DISTAL PANCREATECTOMY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS WITH LAPAROSCOPIC DISTAL PANCREATECTOMY WITH SPLENECTOMY
Takanori Morikawa, MD, PhD, Masahiro Iseki, MD, PhD, Masaharu Ishida, MD, PhD, Tatsuyuki Takadate, MD, PhD, Kyouhei Ariake, MD, PhD, Kei Kawaguchi, MD, PhD, Kunihiro Masuda, MD, PhD, Takeshi Aoki, MD, PhD, Hideo Ohtsuka, MD, PhD, Masamichi Mizuma, MD, PhD, Shinobu Ohnuma, MD, PhD, Hiroki Hayashi, MD, PhD, Kei Nakagawa, MD, PhD, Fuyuhiko Motoi, MD,… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Minimally Invasive Other