Advances In Surgery Channel

Dr. Carlos Blanco and Dra. Victoria Capapé Endourology Unit University Clinic Hospital “Lozano Blesa” Zaragoza Retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) is one of the main Renal stone removal treatments and has been gaining popularity among urologists for the last years. To achieve better visibility during the procedure, irrigation flow (IF) and irrigation pressures (IPs) must be […]

Glauco Alvarez, MD. Technical Director at Clinica of Obesity and Digestive Tract. Santa Maria, Brazil Hiperinsulinemic hypoglycaemia is a rare complication in late postoperative bariatric surgery (0.2-0.36% after LRYGB). It may be triggered by an increase in incretin levels but its physopathology is still unknown. In some cases pancreatectomy is the only therapeutic option. In […]

Raquel Bravo (Gastrointestinal Surgeon Consultant) Ana Otero (Gastrointestinal Surgeon Consultant) AM Lacy (Chief of Gastrointestinal Surgery) Hospital Clínic, Barcelona (Spain) The patient received mechanical bowel cleansing the day before. The rectal stump was cleaned with 250 cc of enema. The patient was fixed and placed in lithotomy position with legs in padded, adjustable stirrups. The […]

Dr. Victor Turrado (Gastrointestinal Surgery Specialist) Dulce Momblan (Gastrointestinal Surgery Specialist) Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain Introduction Gastric cancer is the fifth cancer in incidence and the third cause of cancer-related death worldwide. It’s incidence is higher in Eastern Europe, Eastern Asia and South America than in North America and Western Europe. Almost one million cases […]

What is your most common intraoperative complication when performing right colectomy with CME?

Dr. Joan Minguell Dr. Víctor Barro Department of Traumatology & Orthopedic Surgery Vall d’Hebron University Hospital Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Nowadays joint replacement surgery is one of the most successful procedures in all of medicine. It is a safe and effective procedure designed to decrease pain and allow normal activities by correcting anatomical deformities caused […]

Dr. Jorge Subirá University Clinic Hospital “Lozano Blesa” Zaragoza An adequate surgical treatment with highest curation rates, is as important as a surgical treatment with the lowest complication rate. Radical Cystectomy is a surgical technique with a high morbi-mortality rate, but is it only important the technique we perform? Can we set up more items? […]

Sara Tavares Nogueira, MD AIS Ambassador to Portugal Introduction Biliary disease is one of the most common and well described conditions affecting human health, with laparoscopic cholecystectomies being some of the most performed surgeries around the World. This procedure is not without harm, with modern series of population studies suggesting that about 1.5% of cholecystectomies […]

I.Rubio-Pérez, PhD General Surgery Department Hospital Universitario La Paz Madrid, Spain Surgical site infections (SSIs) are defined as infections that affect the site incision (SSI by superficial or deep incision) or deep tissues up to 30 days after surgery, or up to 1 year if a prosthesis or implant has been placed. SSIs have significant […]

Professor Scott Shikora, MD, FACS, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Professor Shikora, moderated by Ahmad Bashir, talks about the importance of publication for the dissemination of medical knowledge and for your personal academic career. He reviews the steps to take follow in order to improve the chances for a […]

Homero Rivas Assistant Professor of Surgery Director of Innovative Surgery at Stanford University Co-Director of the Stanford Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery After surgery, the patient’s physical transition to the home is a critical time. The feeling of a lack of continuous supervision by specialized teams makes the patient feel vulnerable. Besides, the ability to […]

Sofia Espinoza Raúl Almenara Ana Otero Fecal incontinence is defined as the lack of control of defecation. It is a multifactor condition, involving such factors as mechanical disruption as well as neuromuscular or idiopathic dysfunction. Most of the time it is caused by a loss of anatomic continuity, for example after childbirth, surgery, or other […]

Victor Turrado (Gastrointestinal surgery specialist) Hospital Clínic, Barcelona – Spain Introduction Since its beginnings on the 19th century, thyroid surgery has aimed to resect thyroid diseases as well as to preserve the structures adjacent to the thyroid gland, such as the parathyroid glands and the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN), that are of utmost importance for […]

Dr. Esteve Cugat Dr. Eric Herrero Hospital Universitari Mutua de Terrassa (Spain) Laparoscopic transduodenal ampullectomy for ampullary tumor. Cugat Andorrà E, et al. Cir Esp, Vol 97 (1), Enero 2019 Transduodenal ampullectomy was first introduced by Halstead in 1899 as the treatment for ampulla of Vater cancer, but the technique was not stardardized. Whipple’s duodenopancreatectomy […]

Borja de Lacy Gastrointestinal Surgeon Hospital Clinic, Barcelona Idiopathic achalasia is caused by a degeneration of the myenteric nerve plexus of the esophagus which causes a motility disorder. Strictly speaking, the diagnostic criteria are both a failure of relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter, and absence of esophageal peristalsis. With the new high-resolution manometries, we […]

Frits Berends Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Erasmus MC (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Abdelrahman Nimeri, Chairman of the IFSO Communication Committee, presents the Journal Club with Frits Berends, Bariatric and Metabolic surgeon at Erasmus MC (The Netherlands). Dr. Berends talks about the Elegance Trial, a RCT intended to answer the question: does longer biliopancreatic (BP) limb improve […]

In which patients do you perform Right Colectomy with CME?

Professor Johan Askling Click here to view the whole presentation We were delighted to welcome Professor Johan Askling, Karolinska Institutet, to our meeting in Nice to discuss the role of big data in surgical practice. “Big data is already helping the private sector make smart decisions. It is changing society. It is even replacing traditional […]

Jan J. De Waele Dept. of Critical Care of Medicine Ghent University Hospital Ghent, Belgium Sepsis and septic shock are important problems in critical care medicine as they are frequent, challenging to treat, and associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Key factors in sepsis therapy include fluid resuscitation, support of failing organs, administration of […]

Abdelrahman A. Nimeri President of IFSO Middle East – North Africa Chapter, President of the PanArab Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Abu Dhabi Abdelrahman A. Nimeri (President of IFSO Middle East – North Africa Chapter, President of the PanArab Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Abu Dhabi) explains, in this lecture from IFSO 2018, […]