Clinical NOTES appendectomy study: comparison of transvaginal NOTES appendectomy in hybrid technique with laparoscopic appendectomy.

Purpose: The proposed advantages of NOTES are aimed to assess the comparison with standard procedures. Complications are a major focus of its evaluation. We initiated a prospective comparison between transvaginal hybrid appendectomy versus laparoscopic appendectomy.

Pure NOTES sigmoid resection in an animal survival model.

Introduction: The potential to use single-site transluminal access to perform major surgical procedures is limited. In the current study, a pure natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) technique was developed for sigmoid resection, with combined transgastric and transvaginal access to the abdominal cavity and assisted by colonoscopy.

Methods: This experimental study was conducted on a porcine model.

NOTES--case report of a unidirectional flexible appendectomy.

Background: Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) refers to a new surgical procedure using flexible endoscopes in the abdominal cavity. With this procedure, access is gained by way of organs which are reached through a natural, already-existing external orifice. The hoped-for advantages associated with this method include the reduction of post-operative wound pain, shorter convalescence, avoidance of wound infection and abdominal-wall hernias as well as the absence of scars.

[Mycoserologic tests in surgical intensive care patients and patients with Candida oesophagitis].

We retrospectively analysed the results of Candida serological testing of 126 surgical intensive care patients. There were high numbers of patients which were mycoserologically positive (haemagglutination test HAT 86.4%, immunoglobulin subclasses 85.

Influence of voriconazole and fluconazole on reconstituted multilayered oesophageal epithelium infected by Candida albicans.

Reconstituted multilayered oesophageal epithelium appears to be a good basis to test the efficacy of voriconazole (VOR) and fluconazole (FLU) in the tissue. The resulting model of a Candida oesophagitis was approaching the in vivo situation. We infected the tissue with 2 x 10(6) cfu of the Candida albicans strain SC5314.