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Category Archives: Laparoscopy Laparoscopic

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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Jackie Columbo is back at work as a dental assistant today, just eight days after having a hysterectomy.
And the […]

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 […]

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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New study > Long-term Results > Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication > Anti-reflux Surgery > Massachusetts General Hospital > Harvard Medical School > Minimally invasive procedure > Gastroesophageal reflux disease GERD > Seventy-one percent of patients satisfied with long-term results > Primary or revision redo laparoscopic fundoplication > By single surgeon > Near normal scores of GERD−HRQL Health-Related Quality of Life Scale

Does the results of this study demonstrate that most patients undergoing primary laparoscopic fundoplication have near normal GERD−HRQL scores? Are the patients satisfied with their decision to undergo surgery at long-term follow-up? Are the results following redo laparoscopic fundoplication as good as with primary laparoscopic fundoplication?

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…Patients undergoing laparoscopic fundoplication […]

Minimally Invasive Surgery > Removal of liver cysts and tumors > Benign or malignant > Surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer > Chemo bath > Intraperitoneal hyperthermic perfusion > Advanced abdominal cancers > National Cancer Institute NCI designation > Comprehensive Cancer Center > Moores UC San Diego Cancer Center

Is MIS surgery on the liver a complex and delicate gastrointestinal procedures due to the significant flow of blood? Can the minimally invasive techniques now be performed with limited blood loss?

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…Through an advanced minimally-invasive procedure called laparoscopy, Andrew M. Lowy, M.D., chief of surgical oncology at Moores UCSD Cancer […]

Laparoscopic approach to colorectal cancer resection > Equivalent to open surgery > Cancer control > Five studies > United States > China > Taiwan > Portugal > Italy > Spain > United Kingdom > Colon cancer > Similar outcomes for minimally invasive and open surgery > Surgical experience > Learning curve

Are open incisions that cause pain and require lengthy healing times unnecessary to treat colorectal cancer patients? Are surgeons no longer afraid that laparoscopy might impair survival in colorectal cancer patients and cause metastases in the skin openings that are used to insert the trocars and instruments? Is the expeditious traditional open approach to cancer […]