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Natural Orifice Surgery NOS > Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research NOSCAR > Mark Talamini > University of California San Diego > School of Medicine > Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons SAGES 2008 > Natural-orifice gastric revisions > Covidien > Ethicon > USGI Medical

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

What is the value that the Natural Orifice Surgery NOS technique adds to a surgical procedure? Is NOSCAR surgery enthusiasm self-serving in order to keep the research going? Which high-volume procedure will be the incentive to keep the NOS development rolling?

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EndoVia Medical Inc > A Hansen Medical Inc catheter-technology company > Intellectual property of 33 issued and pending patents and patent applications > Combining robotic technology and computerized movement > Electromechanical catheter manipulator controlled with commands from a workstation

Monday, January 21, 2008

Will EndoVia Medical’s second generation computer-assisted surgical devices for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) and interventional medicine be beneficial for the advance of Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery NOTES? Has EndoVia further developed the robotic guidance system for controlling laparoscopic and catheter-based instruments? Will the technology open large new patient populations to less invasive procedures?

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Lee Swanstrom Performs New Incisionless Procedure to Treat Weight Re-gain After Gastric Bypass > Incisionless Surgical Technique That Reduces Size of Stomach Pouch and Stoma > Gastrointestinal and Minimally Invasive Surgery GMIS > The Oregon Clinic

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Will the new surgical technique help gastric bypass patients manage their weight? Does this new technique allow surgical revisions that are less expensive, less technically difficult to perform and less risky for the by-pass patient? Can the new and less invasive procedure correct a key cause of weight regain and get the patients back on […]

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Bovine collagen injections in the GE tract > Curon Medical’s Stretta device > NDO Plicator > Enteryx Boston Scientific > Gatekeeper Medtronic > Wilson-Cook endoscopic suturing device > EsophyX EndoGastric Solutions > What’s next?

Monday, October 22, 2007

Where are GERD therapies going from here? When will the reimbursement policies for endoluminal therapies change? Is the lack of coverage and efficacy data going to slow down the application of new techniques?

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…three different endoluminal procedures are being used…to treat GERD patients: endoscopic suturing with the NDO Plicator (NDO […]

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