Treatment of Juvenile Recurrent Parotitis: the Yield of Minimally Invasive Intervention

Author(s):  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lirong Li ◽  
Shaohua Ren ◽  
Xudong Hao ◽  
Zigang Zhen ◽  
Hongming Ji

Author(s):  
Nabil Simaan ◽  
Rashid M. Yasin ◽  
Long Wang

Emerging paradigms furthering the reach of medical technology into human anatomy present unique modeling, control, and sensing problems. This review provides a brief history of medical robotics, leading to the current trend of minimally invasive intervention and diagnostics in confined spaces. We discuss robotics for natural orifice and single-port access surgery, capsule and magnetically actuated robotics, and microrobotics, with the aim of elucidating the state of the art. We also discuss works on modeling, sensing, and control of mechanical architectures of robots for natural orifice and single-port access surgery, followed by works on magnetic actuation, sensing, and localization for capsule robotics and microrobotics. Finally, we present challenges and open problems in each of these areas.


HPB Surgery ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Tomás Chiappetta Porras ◽  
Eduardo Daniel Nápoli ◽  
Carlos Manuel Canullán ◽  
Bernabé Matías Quesada ◽  
Hernán Eduardo Roff ◽  
...  

Background. Acute biliary diseases during pregnancy have been classically managed conservatively. Advances in minimally invasive surgery and the high recurrence rate of symptoms observed changed this management. Methods. This is a prospective observational study. Initial management was medical. Unresponsive patients were treated with minimally invasive techniques including gallbladder percutaneous aspiration or cholecystostomy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiography, and laparoscopic cholecystectomy, depending on the pregnancy trimester and underlying diagnosis. Results. 122 patients were admitted. 69 (56.5%) were unresponsive to medical treatment. Recurrent gallbladder colic was the most frequent indication for minimally invasive intervention, followed by acute cholecystitis, choledocholithiasis, and acute biliary pancreatitis. 8 patients were treated during the first trimester, 54 during the second, and 7 during the last trimester. There was no fetal morbidity or mortality. Maternal morbidity was minor with no mortality. Conclusion. Acute biliary tract diseases during pregnancy may be safely treated with minimally invasive procedures according to the underlying diagnosis and to the trimester of pregnancy.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-129
Author(s):  
P N Romashchenko ◽  
Al A Kurygin ◽  
V V Semenov ◽  
S U Polushin ◽  
A A Mamoshin ◽  
...  

Inguinal hernioplasty is one of the most common planned surgical interventions. With the advent of minimally invasive technologies in herniology, a new page in the field of inguinal hernia surgery has opened. The emergence of laparoscopic techniques (TAPP) and fully pre-peritoneal surgery using the TEP method allowed us to achieve good long-term results. However, there remain unresolved questions of justifying the choice of a particular method of minimally invasive intervention in patients with inguinal hernias, as well as minimal information about the comparison of long-term results of treatment of this category of patients. As a result of the study, the results of treatment of 987 patients with inguinal hernias, operated from 2014 to 2018, were evaluated. in the clinic by the endoscopic method (319 by the laparoscopic method TAPP and 668 patients operated by the TEP method). The criteria for the comparison of endoscopic techniques of hernioplasty were: the duration of the operation, the intensity of the pain syndrome, the postoperative bed-day, the economic costs for one treated herniological patient. It was established that in the absence of significant contraindications, the operation of choice was hernioplasty according to the TER method due to the lower risk of damage to internal organs and its greater economic efficiency, while maintaining all the positive qualities of minimally invasive intervention. The average bed-day after surgery according to the TAPP method was 3.8 ± 0.2, and according to the TEP method - 2.6 ± 0.3. The complications, the frequency and the cause of relapses after endoscopic hernioplasty were studied. Analyzing long-term results, in 3 cases (0.9%) after laparoscopic hernioplasty, a relapse of the disease was diagnosed. After hernioplasty using the TEP method, relapse was diagnosed in 2 cases (0.3%). In 2 patients, the hernia recurred was due to the small size of the established mesh prosthesis (less than 10x15 cm), in 3 patients it was caused by turning the lower edge of the mesh prosthesis and was observed at the stage of mastering the technique. As a result of the study, it was found that the TEP technique, in contrast to laparoscopic hernioplasty TAPP, leads to a reduction in the postoperative hospital bed, is accompanied by a significantly lower pain syndrome and recurrence rate of the disease, and also has greater economic efficiency.


Author(s):  
Joanna Kam ◽  
Ariel Frost ◽  
Jason D. Bloom

AbstractThe demand for noninvasive facial rejuvenation continues to increase as younger, well-informed patients enter the aesthetic market. We refer to a subset of these patients as “tweeners,” those who present with early signs of neck and facial aging, but who have not yet developed changes significant enough to warrant a traditional excisional surgery approach. Many of these patients are in search of a minimally invasive intervention, a bridge in between observation and surgery. The authors describe their experience with radiofrequency (RF) technology as an in-office tool to address the aging face in a select patient population. This review also attempts to comprehensively search the existing body of literature to describe the RF technologies and devices available for facial rejuvenation. The efficacy and safety profiles of the devices are discussed, and the devices are categorized by their method of RF delivery—over (contact), through (microneedle), and under (percutaneous) the skin.


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