Objective:Although bariatric surgeries are widely performed around the world,patients frequently experience the recurrence of pre-existing gastroesophageal reflux disease(GERD)symptoms or develop new symptoms,some of ...
An ongoing management dilemma in urologic pros-thetics is how to manage a damaged urethra in cases of eroded artificial urinary sphincter(AUS)[1].In these circumstances,the erosion creates a defect in the ure-thra at ...
Correcting a gut sphincter malfunction is a difficult problem.Because each sphincter has two opposite functions,that of closure and opening,repairing one there is a risk of damaging the other.Indeed,widening a narrow ...
Supported by the National Health and Family Planning of China,No.201402007;the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81873848 and No.82170528.
BACKGROUND Robotic surgery is a cutting-edge minimally invasive technique that overcomes many shortcomings of laparoscopic techniques,yet few studies have evaluated the use of robotic surgery to treat Hirschsprung’s ...
We read the article by Liu et al.[1]entitled“Transanal total mesorectal excision combined with intersphincteric resection has similar long-term oncological outcomes to laparoscopic abdominoperineal resection in low r...
SPARK-BIH Program,Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin。
Background:The aim of the study was to demonstrate the efficacy of human muscle stem cells(MuSCs)isolated using innovative technology in restoring internal urinary sphincter function in a preclinical animal model.Meth...
Background:Management of severe velopharyngeal dysfunction is best performed by a multispecialty team.This team could include a speech-language pathologist,otolaryngologist,prosthodontist,and a plastic surgeon.The mos...
Supported by the Taipei Medical University,No. TMU104-AE1-B35。
BACKGROUND Approximately 20 percent of patients with a tumour localized in the low rectum still encounter the possibility of requiring permanent stoma(PS), which can cause drastic changes in lifestyle and physical per...
BACKGROUND Rectal melanoma is an uncommon neoplasm that accounts for approximately 1 percent of rectal cancer cases.Abdominoperineal resection was regarded as the radical procedure for disease control.Nevertheless,it ...
Almost 15 years have passed since the first paper on the possibility of using magnets to prevent gastro-esophageal reflux(GER)was published and so it is time to assess the results obtained with the first magnetic devi...