Background: Electrosurgical devices are commonly used during endoscopy and are being increasingly used with complex procedures such as endoscopic mucosal resection and per oral endoscopic myotomy. Despite their widespread use, the complication profiles of various energy tools have not been well described in the literature.
Hypothesis: Our purposes were (1) to describe causes of endoscopic energy-based device complications leading to injury or death; (2) to determine if common mechanisms leading
Introduction: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement and laparoscopic gastrostomy (LG) placement provide gastric enteral feeding access to patients unable to tolerate feeds by mouth. Several studies have compared patient outcomes following PEG and open gastrostomy placement; however no studies in the adult population compare LG to PEG. This study aims to compare the frequency of operative complications between PEG and LG placement.
Materials and Methods: A retrospective chart revie
INTRODUCTION: We performed a propensity score matching analysis to assess the safety and short-term outcomes of intracorporeal Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy using a transorally inserted anvil system (OrVilTM) compared with extracorporeal circular Roux-en-Y anastomosis during laparoscopic total gastrectomy for gastric cancer.
METHODS: From January 2011 to April 2014, a total of 165 consecutive patients with gastric cancer underwent either intracorporeal Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy (n=25) using
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The aim of the study is to know the results after a long-term follow up of a clinical series of patients undergoing surgery for several procedures with transvaginal approach using rigid and flexible endoscopy.
Minimally invasive surgery is constantly evolving in recent years. The use of transvaginal route is not new but it takes special interest with the emergence of natural orifice endoscopic surgery NOTES. Since 2007 there have been many uses of the transvaginal route, whether
Introduction: Laparoscopic jejunostomy tube (J-tube) placement has become a routine method to provide enteral nutrition for patients who are otherwise unable to tolerate oral intake. The reported complication rate related to placement of J-tubes or their post-operative function varies dramatically from 5-25%. There is a paucity of recent studies that evaluate the morbidity of this procedure. Consequently, our primary objective was to evaluate the morbidity rate of laparoscopic J-tube placement a