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Category Archives: Laparoscopic Surgical Procedures

As America Gets Bigger > Serious social and psychological dimensions > National Eating Disorder > Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC > Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity > National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANES > Diabetes mellitus > Cardiovascular disease > Hypertension and stroke > Certain forms of cancer > Increased risk of premature death > Serious chronic conditions > Reduced overall quality of life

Is surgical treatment for obesity a good and effective treatment for preventing the life-threatening complications and serious degenerative problems associated with pathological obesity? Do drug and medical device companies cash in to unprecedented degrees? Will overweight- and obesity-attributable spending continue to increase and government will continue to finance a sizable portion?

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TriPort device > Advanced Surgical Concept > New Procedure To Revolutionize Donor Nephrectomy > Kidney Live Donor Surgery > NBC Today Show > Bellybutton procedure > Surgical scar hidden by bellybutton

Will surgeons use the TriPort to develop a new generation of procedures that reduce surgical trauma and scars? will the reduction in trauma and scars result in an increase in the number of patients willing to provide transplant kidneys and other organs? Is there any substantial advantage of SPL or NOTES over conventional laparoscopy and […]

Gastric Bypass Surgery > Laparoscopic or Open Procedure > Annals of Surgery > Laparoscopic gastric bypass LGB > Open gastric bypass OGB > Placing several small incisions in the abdomen > Lesser intraoperative blood loss > Shorter hospitalization > Reduced postoperative pain > Less pulmonary complications > Faster recovery > Better cosmesis > Fewer wound complications

Does the laparoscopic method reduce postoperative complications? Is the need for a second operation reduced? Is the risk of pulmonary complications increased by 92 percent with open surgery? Do cardiovascular complications increase to 54 percent with open surgery?

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If you are one of the millions of people in the United […]

Gallbladder Inflammation > Early Surgery Best > Laparoscopy > Keyhole surgery > Cholecystitis > Resulting from a gallstone > Blocks the cystic duct > Abdominal pain > Lasts more than 6 hours > Fever > Nausea > Biliary colic

Is gallbladder inflammation characterized by repeated attacks of pain? Does a persistent acute episode signal a serious complication? Is it best patient care to have the gallbladder removed using minimally invasive surgery within 24 hours of hospital admission?

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…In patients who develop acute inflammation of the gallbladder, its best to […]

Single-incision laparoscopic hysterectomy > Single-port access surgery SPA > Single-incision laparoscopic surgery SILS > Substitution of traditional invasive abdominal surgery

Are there too many open-incision abdominal hysterectomies performed? Is total laparoscopic surgery, using three or four incisions, usuable in most patients with noncancerous conditions? Will single-incision laparoscopic surgery substitue traditional laparoscopy?

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YelloPort Plus > Advanced laparoscopic port access system > Well received by surgeons in the USA > Expected worldwide increase > Obesity rise > Increase in demand for laparoscopic ports > Surgical Innovations > Demand for obesity-reduction operations

Are surgical procedural tray supply companies evaluating the new laparoscopic access port? Is the expected outcome an opening of important routes to the procurement decision-makers in hospital groups across the USA? Is YelloPort Plus established in major European markets such as Spain, Scandinavia and other key territories?

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Single port laparoscopy SPL > More surgeons perform SPL surgery > Triport > Quadport > Retention suture t-anchors > Single port access SPA > One Port Umbilicus Surgery OPUS > R-Port laparoscopic access device > Advanced Surgical Concepts ASC > Transumbilical nephrectomy and pyeloplasty > Needlescopic instruments > Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery NOTES

Is single port laparoscopy SPL positioned to be more successful than using the natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery NOTES approach? Is there any substantial advantage of SPL or NOTES over conventional laparoscopy and robotics? Are retention suture t-anchors to the lateral parietal peritoneum improving the SPL access for scarless single port transumbilical
nephrectomy and […]