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Category Archives: Quicker recovery

Patient Receives New Incision-Free Weight-Loss Surgery > Transoral Gastroplasty TOGA Pivotal Trial > Surgery Performed Completely Through the Mouth > NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia > Endoscopic approach > Less pain > Quicker recovery > Shortened hospital stay > Decreased complications > Lack of scarring

Is this new surgery an exciting option for severely overweight patients who do not respond to diet, exercise and drug therapy? Will the TOGA procedure help patients to lose weight and improve their health? Is TOGA an option for patients who are unable or unwilling to undergo more invasive surgery?

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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 […]

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 […]

Open Aortic Stapler OAS > Mechanical vascular anastomotic device > For open surgery graft-aorta anastomosis > Connecting AAA graft to aortic neck > One-shot sutureless anastomosis > ES Vascular Ltd > Medical device start-up raised $3 million from private investors > Alternative to stent-grafting EVAR > May eliminate up to 90% of suturing time > Reduce cross clamping and overall operative times > Calcified aorta hampers development of vascular stapling technology

How does the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Baltimore PC evaluate the continued failure rates of stent-graft repair? Why do most practitioners feel that choosing between endovascular repair with endoleaks or EVAR graft migration and open surgical repair is a toss up considering the complexity of EVAR? Is it time for a combination […]