Introduction: Timely and constructive feedback is of significant importance to honing and retaining any newly learned item. Surgical residencies are notorious for providing feedback that is limited in quantity and neither helpful nor well-timed. Among all topics taught in a surgical residency, technical skills require the most time and involve the most effort to teach, […]
Introduction: There is increasing discrepancy between number of patients awaiting transplantation and the number of available organs. To increase the donor pool, live donor kidney transplantation is an excellent option and has become the gold standard for renal transplant. Most operations are performed with conventional laparoscopy with supra-pubic organ extraction from a Pfannenstiel incision. However, […]
Introduction: Despite potential advantages of hybrid-NOTES Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP), previous research demonstrated its limitation in human cadavers and the strong need for laparoscopic assistance during NOTES for advanced procedures. We assumed that the combination of further knowledge, new instruments and techniques would offer opportunities to perform advanced laparoscopic surgery applying single incision and natural […]
Introduction: The oncological safety of laparoscopic surgery (LAP) in rectal cancer remains a matter of controversy, although total mesorectal excision (TME) for rectal cancer has been proposed to have long-term advantages.Methods: From May 2003 to Dec 2007, 259 mid and distal rectal cancer was resected with curative intent in Seoul National University Bundang Hostpital. Preoperative […]
Background: B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a recognized serologic marker of heart failure and has been associated with cachexia of heart failure. In addition, BNP is positively correlated to adiponectin which is inversely correlated to weight gain. We are aware that gastric bypass leads to early satiety and increases in adiponectin. Our study hypothesis is […]