Significantly elevated levels of plasma Programmed cell Death Ligand 1 (PDL-1) in wound fluids after colorectal cancer resection are a likely source of the persistently elevated plasma levels noted post-surgery.
Hmc Shantha Kumara, PhD1, Neil Mitra, MD1, Dasuni Niyagama Gamage, MD1, Carl S Winkler, MD1, Jaspreet K Sandhu, MD2, Xiaohong Yan, PhD1, Vesna Cekic, RN1, Nipa D Gandhi, MD1, Richard L Whelan, MD1. 1Mount Sinai West Hospital, Department of Surgery, New York,USA, 2Brookdale University Hospital & Medical Center, Department of Surgery,Brooklyn,New York,USAIntroduction: The protein B7 Homolog… Continue Reading
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Protective ileostomy for patients with T3 and T4 rectal cancer before neoadjuvant therapy
George Dejeu, Adrian Maghiar, Octavian Maghiar, Dan Ciurtin, Marius Sfirlea. Spital PelicanWe started using protective ileostomy for the patients that were diagnosed with T3 and T4 rectal cancer before neoadjuvant therapy in the past 24 months, looking at the effect this had on the readmision for intestinal occlusion of those patients during the course of… Continue Reading
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Robotic Assisted Colorectal Surgery: Does BMI Affect Conversion Rate and Postoperative Complications?
Erin Worden, MD, Lala Hussain, MSc, Hamza Guend, MD. Good Samaritan HospitalBackground: Robotic-assisted surgery offers the advantages of instrumentation with added degrees of freedom, 3-dimensional surgeon controlled camera, and stable retraction. We hypothesize that such advantages may reduce the rate of conversion to open surgery in obese patients. The primary aim of our study was to… Continue Reading
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Selective Use of Intraoperative Perfusion Assessment using Immunofluorescence Angiography in High Risk Colorectal Anastomoses Results in Important Changes in Management
Mohammed M Al-Abri, MD, Noura Alhassan, MD, Patrick Charlebois, MD, A. Sender Liberman, MD, Gerald Fried, MD, Berry L Stein, MD, Carmen Mueller, MD, Liane Feldman, MD, Pepa Kanava, Msc, Lawrence Lee, MD, PHD. McGill University Health CentreBackground: Immunofluorescence angiography (IFA) with indocyanine green (ICG) can be useful to assess anastomotic perfusion in high risk… Continue Reading
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Cranial first approach in laparoscopic right-sided colon cancer surgery
Toru Tonooka, Nobuhiro Takiguchi, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroaki Soda, Isamu Hoshino, Hisashi Gunji, Arihito Yoshizumi, Yoshihiro Nabeya. Chiba Cancer CenterAim: Laparoscopic surgery for right-sided colon carcinoma is difficult to standardize due to technical difficulty by the presence of adjacent organs and major vessels to be preserved. There are different approaches to overcome the hurdle, such as… Continue Reading
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Are We Ready for Bundled Payments for Major Bowel Surgery?
Udai S Sibia, MD, MBA, Justin J Turcotte, MBA, John R Klune, MD, MBA, Glen R Gibson, MD, FACS. Anne Arundel Medical CenterIntroduction: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced new voluntary episode payment models for major bowel surgery that aim to align incentives across participating healthcare providers in an attempt to reduce… Continue Reading
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Are Right-Sided Colectomies for Neoplastic Disease at Increased Risk of Primary Postoperative Ileus Compared to Left-Sided Colectomies? A Coarsened Exact Matched Analysis
Richard Garfinkle, MD, Faisal Al-Rashid, MD, Nancy Morin, MD, Carol-Ann Vasilevsky, MD, Gabriela Ghitulescu, MD, Julio Faria, MD, Marylise Boutros, MD. Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, CanadaIntroduction: Primary postoperative ileus (pPOI) is the most common gastrointestinal complication following colonic resection. The objective of this study was to determine whether right-sided colectomies (RC) were associated with… Continue Reading
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Laparoscopic procedure combined with ICG lymphatic imaging for splenic flexure advanced colon cancer
Kazuki Ueda, MD, Junichiro Kawamura, MD, Hokuto Ushijima, MD, Koji Daito, MD, Tadao Tokoro, MD, Yoshinori Yane, MD, Yasumasa Yoshioka, MD, Jin-Ichi Hida, MD, Kiyotaka Okuno, MD. Kindai University Faculty of MedicineThe laparoscopic procedure for splenic flexure advanced colon cancer is oncologically difficult to perform. The reasons are including anatomical surrounding the important organs and… Continue Reading
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Meta-analysis of clinical and pathological outcomes of transanal versus laparoscopic total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer
Magdalena Mizera, Grzegorz Torbicz, Natalia Gajewska, Jan Witowski, Mateusz Rubinkiewicz, MD, PhD, Agata Czerwinska, MD, Piotr Zarzycki, MD, Piotr Malczak, MD, Piotr Major, MD, PhD, Michal Pedziwiatr, MD, PhD. 2nd Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, PolandBackground: Transanal total mesorectal excision (TaTME) is designed particularly to overcome the limits of open and… Continue Reading
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- Colorectal
MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCTECTOMY FOR RECTAL CANCER: THE NEW STANDARD OF CARE?
Azah Althumairi, MD, James P Taylor, MBBChir, MPH, Miloslawa Stem, MS, Susan L Gearhart, MD, Sandy Fang, MD, Chady Atallah, Bashar Safar, MD, Jonathan Efron, MD. Johns HopkinsINTRODUCTION: Prior randomized trials showed comparable short-term outcomes between open and minimally invasive proctectomy (OP and MIP) for rectal cancer. We hypothesize that short-term outcomes for MIP have… Continue Reading
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Robotic surgery for rectal cancer: a single center experience of 75 consecutive cases
Savulescu Florin, MD, PhD, Cirlan Cristian, MD, Blajut Cristian, MD, Budrugeac Iulia, MD, Iordache Mihai, MD, Iordache-Petrescu Madalina, MD. Dr. Carol Davila Central Military Emergency University HospitalBackground: Minimally invasive techniques have revolutionized the field of general surgery over the few last decades. The available literature on minimally invasive colorectal cancer surgery demonstrates that this approach is… Continue Reading
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Robotic versus laparoscopic combined resection for rectal cancer and liver metastases
Jiyang Li, Yunhe Gao, Wenquan Liang, Kecheng Zhang, Jianxin Cui, Zhi Qiao, Bo Wei, Hongqing Xi, Lin Chen. Chinese PLA General HospitalBackground: Laparoscopic surgery is expanding in the treatment of liver metastases from gastrointestinal cancer due to its growing acceptance in safety, feasibility and efficacy recent years. Surgical robotic systems have recently supplemented and improved laparoscopic… Continue Reading
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Trauma-Induced Cecal Bascule
Robin Osofsky, MD, Heesung Park, BS, Sarah Popek, MD. University of New MexicoIntro: Cecal bascule is a subtype of cecal volvulus characterized by anterior fold of the cecum into mid abdomen without any torsion, resulting in a closed loop obstruction. The infrequency with which it is encountered makes cecum bascule a challenging subject to study. Case… Continue Reading
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Ex vivo bovine needle puncture bowel wall lift histological study: Lifts are most commonly generated with a sclerotherapy catheter/needle.
Carl Winkler, MD1, Jaspreet Sandhu, MD2, Xiaohong Yan, PhD1, Neil Mitra, MD1, Dasuni Niyagama Gamage1, Vesna Cekic, RN1, Hmc Shantha Kumara, PhD1, Richard L Whelan, MD1. 1Mount Sinai West Hospital, 2Brookdale University Hospital Medical CenterIntroduction: A mucosal “lift”, generated by injecting fluid into the submucosal layer, needs to be established prior to endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD)… Continue Reading
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Surgical Site Infections After Colorectal surgeries: A risk that can be decreased
Abdelrahman Attili, MD1, Danielle Craigg2, Anthony Dinallo2, Megan Navarro2, Janelle Spence1, Haane Massarotti2, Allen Chudzinski2. 1University of Central Florida, 2Florida Hospital TampaIntroduction: Surgical site infections (SSI) are considered a major cause of morbidity and an independent predictor for mortality in surgical patients. It accounts for approximately a quarter of all nosocomial infections and it contributes to increase length… Continue Reading
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- Colorectal