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Category Archives: NOTES research

EURO-NOTES Foundation > Awarded Research Funding > Twelve Winners From Across Europe > Attended by gastroenterologists and surgeons > Encouraging research into Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery NOTES > Developing field and further investigation is needed > Understand the full implications and opportunities for the patient > Exciting area of surgery > European Association for Endoscopic Surgery EAES > European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ESGE

Are the growing capabilities of therapeutic flexible endoscopy leading to a new era in treatment of gastrointestinal conditions? Are the most important areas for initial NOTES study safe peritoneal access and secure gastric closure, intraperitoneal contamination, image display and maintenance of spatial orientation, development of stable working platforms, physiologic perturbations, and tissue approximation methods?

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OverStitch endoscopic suture system > Apollo Endosurgery > Announces 510(k) Clearance > Flexible Endoscopic Suturing System > New surgical tool for endoscopic surgical procedures > Adapting suturing to a standard flexible endoscope platform > Fully disposable suturing system > Advanced endoscopist > Perform full thickness tissue apposition > Mimics laparoscopic suturing

Is a device with the capability to suture endoscopically a valuable tool for a variety of endolumenal GI procedures? Is the 510(k) clearance of the OverStitch endoscopic suture system a significant step towards making the benefits of endolumenal surgery a realistic therapeutic option? Will the OverStitch system will enable the advanced endoscopist to perform more […]

No-Scar Surgery > Through the Mouth or Vagina > Removing gallbladders and appendixes > Natural orifice operations > Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery > Through-the-mouth appendectomy

Are the plum-size gallbladders usually extracted through tiny holes in the abdomen, safe to be pulled out through the vagina? Does it makes sense to put a hole in a perfectly good organ? Will NOTES ever be embraced by the surgical community?

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…The unusual operation, performed at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia […]

Surgical procedures that will be completely concealed > Leave no visible scars > Medical robots > Swallow the surgeon > Biomedicine > Tiny medical robots > Perform surgery inside patients > Greater precision than existing methods > Richard Feynman > Nanobots > Pioneers of gastrointestinal devices > Pillcam > ARES Assembling Reconfigurable Endoluminal Surgical system > Micro-robot > Involves only one incision and smaller surgical instruments > Build an operating room inside a patient > Paolo Dario > Biomedical robotics > Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa Italy > Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems > Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH in Zurich > Micro Nanophysics Research Laboratory at Monash University near Melbourne Australia > Carnegie Mellon University’s NanoRobotics Lab in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania > Tiny rotary motors called flagella > Resemble corkscrews

Will the robots be able to navigate exactly where doctors direct it? Is it feasible to take highly detailed photos of possible trouble spots inside the human gastrointestinal GI sytem? Will it even be able to take tiny biopsies?

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…IN THE 1966 film “Fantastic Voyage”, a submarine carrying a team […]

Transgastric instrumentation > Bacterial contamination of the peritoneal cavity > Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery NOTES > Minimize risk of clinically significant peritoneal contamination > Gastrotomy Roux-en-Y gastric bypass LSRYGB > Gastrotomy with creation of a gastrojejunostomy during LSRYGB > Transgastric surgery > Endolumenal surgery > The Ohio State University School of Medicine and Public Health

Does transgastric instrumentation contaminate the abdominal cavity? Are pathogens clinically insignificant due to species or bacterial load? Is there the need to minimize the risk of clinically significant peritoneal contamination?

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Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is a rapidly evolving technique providing access to the peritoneum utilizing an endoscope via […]

Surgeons try new methods > Removing gall bladder without incision > NOTES > Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery > Advantages over the traditional endoscopic surgery > Incision made behind the uterus > Abdominal exploration > Appendix removal > Biopsy > Procedure through the rectum or mouth in future > NYP Hospital > New York-Presbyterian Hospital > Columbia University Medical Center

 Are the growing capabilities of therapeutic flexible endoscopy leading to a new era in treatment of gastrointestinal conditions? Are the most important areas for initial NOTES study safe peritoneal access and secure gastric closure, intraperitoneal contamination, image display and maintenance of spatial orientation, development of stable working platforms, physiologic perturbations, and tissue approximation methods?

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LSI Solutions > Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery NOTES > Evaluation of a novel access and closure device > For NOTES applications > Transcolonic > Survival study in the porcine

LSI Solutions > Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery NOTES > Evaluation of a novel access and closure device > For NOTES applications > Transcolonic > Survival study in the porcine

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…Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is a novel, potentially less invasive  alternative to laparoscopic surgery. However, the problems of […]