Background: Patients diagnosed with early gastric cancers (EGC) are treated by endoscopic or surgical resections achieving five-year survival rates greater than 90% in some series. Rapidly maturing experience with laparoscopic gastrectomies and appropriate lymph node dissectionsfor the management of ECG offers these patients the many benefits of the minimally – invasive surgical (MIS) approach to […]
Introduction: Single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) has been described in the urologic, gynecologic, bariatric and, more recently, colorectal surgical literature. Single-port colectomies have only been described as case-reports. We herein describe our experience to date with the use of single incision laparoscopic surgery for total proctocolectomy with ileoanal anastomosis.Patients and Methods: All patients who have […]
HYPOTHESIS: Lung transplant candidates are prone to GERD as well as anatomic and motility disorders of their esophagus. GERD and aspiration may contribute to the development of bronchiolitis obliterans, resulting in accelerated graft deterioration following lung transplantation. However, it is not well known whether Lung transplant candidates have functional and/or anatomic abnormalities of their esophagus […]
Background: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is frequently associated with pulmonary symptoms. Symptoms such as asthma, cough and wheezing may be severe and occasionally life threatening. Unfortunately they are not necessarily recognized as caused by reflux. Therapy can exacerbate the symptoms by causing worsening reflux. Laparoscopic Fundoplication has proven to be very effective in controlling reflux […]
Background: Laparoscopic adrenalectomy became in past decade the procedure of choice for adrenal pathology and now is adopted for larger tumors or even large pheochomocytomas. Method: Since 2003 in General Surgery Department Emergency Hospital Bucharest Romania, the same surgical-anaestesical team performed over 150 adrenalectomies and 9 of this procedure were for pheochromocytomas larger then 6 […]