The trend of less invasive solutions for surgical procedures brought about a broad and expanding adoption of endoscopic and laparoscopic surgery. Today, over 4,000,000 (4 million) laparoscopic procedures are performed annually. This trend will continue as improved and novel instrumentation and techniques are developed. Access cannula ports are placed by creating a puncture through the […]
Wasef Abujaish, MD, Sarah Lomas, MD, Julie Alosi, MD, Charles Parsons, MD. University of Vermont College of Medicine. Fletcher Allen Health Care Background: Surgical intervention is considered the treatment modality of choice for acute symptomatic gastric volvulus. Recently, the traditional open surgical technique has been replaced by the recommendation for a minimally invasive approach. […]
Objective of the deviceIn recent years, the number of hospitals that perform laparoscopic-assisted hepatectomy as a less-invasive approach is increasing with development and improvement in medical devices and the advancement of surgical techniques. However, because the liver has a very rich blood supply, it is important to intraoperatively determine the hepatic vascular distribution for safe […]
Karamollah Toolabi, Saeed Arefanian. Tehran University of Medical Sciences Obesity has many co-morbidities. Commercial and pharmacologic assisted diets show little success in severely obese patients. Several surgical procedures (Jejunoileal bypass, vertical and horizontal banded gastroplasty, gastric bypass, biliopancreatic diversion and gastric banding) developed in order to reach more acceptable long-term outcomes. Therefore we perform […]
C Palanivelu, P Senthilnathan, P Praveen Raj, S Rajapandian, S Sathiyamurthy, Anirudh Vij. GEM Hospital & Research Centre Background : The tremendous advancements in single incision laparoscopic surgery has prompted us to perform laparoscopic single incision hernia repair.Methods : A total of 10 patients ( 8 men and two women ) underwent laparoscopic single […]