Diego L Lima, MD, Gildo O Passos Junior, MD, Juscielle S Barros, Ingrid L V. Rodrigues, Yukie C Konishi, Frederico W C. Silva, MD, Gustavo L Carvalho, PhD. University of Pernambuco, Faculty of Medical Sciences. INTRODUCTION – Historically, the rate of bile duct injury (BDI) in the era of open cholecystectomy was approximately 0.2%. In […]
Robert J Aragon, MD, Cheryl Lin, MD, Tamas J Vidovszky, MD, FACS, Aaron D Carr, MD, Mohamed R Ali, MD, FACS. Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis.. INTRODUCTION: The past decade has witnessed the application of innovative approaches to laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). At our institution, we have performed single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SILC), multi-port […]
Nuri Okkabaz, MD, Jeffrey P Hammel, MS, Feza H Remzi, MD, Emre Gorgun, MD. Department of Colorectal Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic. Background: The average life expectancy and number of elderly people has been increasing across the world. Age is a significant risk factor for colorectal cancer; thus, surgeons are commonly facing age-related perioperative […]
Nicole T Townsend, MD, Edward Jones, MD, Alessandro Paniccia, MD, Greg V Stiegmann, MD, Thomas N Robinson, MD. University of Colorado. INTRODUCTION: Unintended thermal injury from patient monitoring devices connected to wires extending off the surgical field (e.g., neuromonitoring leads, EKG pads) is reported in the literature without a clear understanding of this injury’s mechanism. […]
Zhuo Sun, MD, John Rodriguez, MD, John McMichael, Bipan Chand, MD, Stacy Brethauer, MD, Phillip Schauer, MD, Kevin El-Hayek, MD, Matthew D Kroh, MD. 1 Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2 Department of Surgery, Loyola University, Maywood, IL. Introduction: The management of medically refractory gastroparesis remains a challenge. In addition to decompressive and […]