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BrainLAB > Olympus Medical > Distribution deal > Olympus Medical Systems Europa > Digital Lightbox > Platform integrates with PACS > Radiological information like MRI CT x-ray PET data > Integration solutions Endoalpha > Endobase and videostreaming system > Interactive platform for DICOM data > General surgeons and gastroenterologists

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Will the Digital Lightbox product intergrate with the hospital PACS system? Will General surgeons and gastroenterologists gain access to radiological information such as MRI or x-ray patient data? Will the Endoalpha system be compatible with the Digital Lightbox?

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Olympus > First-Half Profit Falls 89% > Gyrus Costs > Endoscopes Married With Energy Device For Tissue Take Down And Fusion > Olympus Expands Medical Systems Business In Minimally Invasive Systems

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Is the world’s biggest maker of endoscopes with 70% of the global market now targeting the disposable device segment? Is the device market for Minimally invasive surgeries in greater demand as societies around the world age? Is the Gyrus PK System generator and instruments ability to cut and coagulate across a wide range of tissue […]

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Hybrid procedures > Bridge between laparoscopic and transluminal surgery > Natural Orifice Trans Umbilical Surgery NOTUS > Trans Umbilical Endoscopic Surgery TUES > Trans Umbilical Laparoscopic Assisted TULA > New ways how to minimize bodily trauma > Improved cosmesis > Psychological advantage for patients

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

What are the benefits of performing a cholecystectomy through a 20mm umbilical port that might increase the risk of abdominal wall complications? Will it be possible to reduce the size of the instruments and scopes to make them suitable for a smaller umbilical port? What role have flexible scopes with operative channels and endoscopic instruments?

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Stented sleeve implant limits digestion > Device goes down the esophagus into the stomach > Experiment in treating morbid obesity especially in type 2 diabetics > Proximal fixation may prevent migration > Natural Orifices Endoscopic Transluminal Surgery NOTES device > Prior to gastric bypass surgery such as Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass or Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding > EndoBarrier device > GI Dynamics

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Does the food go on the inside of the endobarrier device with the digestive enzymes on the outside of the device? Does the endobarrier device modify metabolic pathways and prevent the mixing of food and digestive enzymes? Does the EndoBarrier stenting device migrate without safe and secure proximal fixation with T fasteners?

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Laparoscopic and vaginal hysterectomies remain far less common > 538,000 hysterectomies performed for benign disease> Most hysterectomies still invasive procedures

Friday, October 31, 2008

Is vaginal hysterectomy still considered to be associated with the lowest morbidity? Will the rate of laparoscopic hysterectomies continue to increase? Is a vaginal hysterectomy chosen over a laparoscopic or abdominal approach inspite of the fact that laparoscopic surgery is associated with shorter length of stay, faster recovery and fewer postoperative infections?

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Bard EndoCinch endosuturing system > Long-term outcome > Endoluminal gastroplication > Treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease > Effect of a second procedure > Gastroenterology > University Hospital of North Norway

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Does the development of innovative NOTES devices for improving the function of the lower esophageal sphincter LES continue? What role will Polymethylmethacrylate PMMA beads play in the thicken of the tissue and the strengthen of the LES when the microbeads are implanted in local tissue adjacent to the LES? Will the promising work in Endoscopic […]

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Novel Gastrointestinal Interventional Therapies > Endolumenal application > GI Dynamics > Gut-Lining Device > Combats Diabetes > Obesity Clinical Trial > Reduced blood sugar > More invasive procedures might carry more risk > Harvard Medical School > Reversible > Device can be retrieved via the mouth > First World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes > EndoBarrier Gastrointestinal Liner Data > Patients with Type 2 Diabetes > Presented at the First World Congress > Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Has the EndoBarrier potential to provide immediate metabolic control with less risk? Are these the most exciting and promising device data from endoscopic devices? Has this disease has reached epidemic proportions around the globe? Is there a substantial unmet need for a simple and safe approach for patients to achieve metabolic control?

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