Contributors: Ranjan Sudan
This video depicts a laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass performed with a linear stapled jejunojejunostomy and a circular stapled gastrojejunostomy.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17797/4mc50uaz8e
Editor Recruited By: Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD
Contributors: Anna Sabih and Edward Auyang
This video depicts a laparoscopic-assisted approach for the retrieval of an endoscopic capsule retained within the small bowel.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17797/prub9rczs1
Editor Recruited By: Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD
Contributors: Shaina Eckhouse, Daniel Guerron, Keri Seymour, Ranjan Sudan , Jin Yoo, Chan Park , and Dana Portenier.
The present video illustrates the technique utilized to place a vagal nerve stimulator for weight loss in a morbidly obese patient. As most surgical trainees do not routinely perform truncal vagotomy, laparoscopic or otherwise, the technical goal of this video is to depict the surgical technique needed to laparoscopically identify and work with the anterior and posterior vagus nerves. Vagal nerve blocking therapy is one of many procedures used for surgical weight loss. In the present case, the weight loss achieved was less than that seen with a gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy over a comparable time period.
Contributors: Jin Yoo
Percutaneous instrumentation is a new area of development within minimally invasive surgery. This video demonstrates the use of 2.3mm low profile percutaneous graspers during an elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
A laparoscopic approach was used to evaluate and manage hemoperitoneum that occurred in a 50 year-old woman who had undergone recent sleeve gastrectomy complicated by pulmonary embolism and hemoperitoneum. This case illustrates an important complication of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, the usefulness of laparoscopy for managing complications of bariatric surgery, and the challenge of laparoscopy in an peritoneum filled with a significant quantity of blood.
Authors: Donald Q Brubaker, BA – West Virginia University. Nova Szoka, MD – West Virginia University.
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