Presenter: Mridul Pansari MD | Florida Atlantic University Background: Stenting of the pancreatic and biliary anastomoses a Whipple procedure has been shown to lower rate anastomotic leak in several retrospective prospective studies. We describe here combined ductal external drainage catheter we have used successfully our pancreatico-duodenectomy operations. Methods: identified / stent which co...

Mr Q is a 50-year-old electronics designer with metastatic esophageal cancer treated with third-line palliative chemotherapy. Recently, he has spent more than half of his time in bed due to a general lack of energy, although he walks without assistance or dyspnea. He was admitted to a university hospital in May 2006 for intractable nausea and vomiting. His medical history was remarkable for mig...

Although enteral feeding by nasal gastric tube is popular for the patients who have a swallowing disability and require long-term nutritional support, but have intact gut, this tube sometimes causes aspiration pneumonia or esophageal ulcer. For these patients, conventional techniques for performance of a feeding gastrostomy made by surgical laparotomy have been used so far. However, these patie...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of our study was to assess the feasibility of performing percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy (PRG) in patients who had undergone partial gastrectomy and to evaluate factors associated with technical success. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nineteen patients after partial gastrectomy, who were referred for PRG between April 2006 and April 2012, were retrospectively analyzed. The re...

BACKGROUND Patients presenting upper gastrointestinal obstruction, difficulty or inability in swallowing, may need nutritional support which can be obtained through gastrostomy and jejunostomy. AIM To describe the methods of gastrostomy and jejunostomy video-assisted, and to compare surgical approaches for video-assisted laparoscopy and laparotomy in patients with advanced cancer of the esoph...

Rumination syndrome is a behavioral disorder resulting in effortless regurgitation of undigested food within minutes of meal intake that is subsequently either re-swallowed or ejected. It is commonly misdiagnosed, patients often undergo extensive testing and multiple therapies, many of which are directed at suspected gastroparesis. A 25-year-old Caucasian female initially presented to our care ...