Publications by authors named "Liying Rong"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to compare surgical outcomes of robotic-assisted proctosigmoidectomy (RAP) and laparoscopic-assisted Soave pull-through (LAP) for children with Hirschsprung's disease (HD) over a multi-year trial.
- Researchers followed 328 eligible patients, with outcomes measured via bowel functional scores, noting that RAP resulted in shorter dissection and traction times, and a lower rate of urinary retention compared to LAP.
- While medium-term bowel function outcomes were generally similar for both methods, RAP showed improved results in infants operated on under three months old, indicating potential benefits for this specific age group.
Background: Despite the rapid advancement of robotic surgery across various surgical domains, only cases of robotic repair (RR) for neonates with esophageal atresia (EA) have been reported. Comprehensive studies comparing RR and thoracoscopic repair (TR) are lacking. The authors aimed to compare the safety and efficacy of RR and TR for EA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Robotics has been used safely and successfully in a variety of adult surgeries and is gradually gaining ground in pediatrics. While the benefits of robotic-assisted surgery in disease treatment are well recognized, its high cost has led to questions. To investigate whether robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RALS) is cost-effective compared to conventional laparoscopic surgery (LS) in pediatric surgery, we attempted to construct a model to perform an analysis of these two surgical approaches using Python statistical analysis software.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs a congenital and genetically related disease, many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been reported to be associated with the risk of HSCR. Our previous research showed that SNP rs2439302 (NRG1) interacted with rs2435357 (RET) to increase the risk of HSCR development. However, the underlying molecular mechanism is still not well understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: 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 disease (HSCR).
Aim: To analyze the feasibility and medium-term outcomes of robotic-assisted proctosigmoidectomy (RAPS) with sphincter- and nerve-sparing surgery in HSCR patients.
Methods: From July 2015 to January 2022, 156 rectosigmoid HSCR patients were enrolled in this multicenter prospective study.
Background: Robotic-assisted Kasai portoenterostomy (RAKPE) has been utilized to treat biliary atresia (BA). However, RAKPE is not widely performed and its efficacy remains unknown. We summarized the experience of RAKPE for BA and determined its efficacy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) is being increasingly used in pediatric choledochal cysts (CCs), but is most commonly performed in older children and adolescents. The outcomes in young infants remain to be explored. The purpose of this study is to compare outcomes in infants aged ≤ 1 year with an older cohort.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Operative cholangiography, the gold standard for the diagnosis of biliary atresia (BA), is being challenged due to an increase in the studies of misdiagnosis. A previous study has shown that the laparoscopic hepatic subcapsular spider-like telangiectasis (HSST) sign was accurate for diagnosing BA. This study aims to compare the performance of the HSST sign with cholangiography in the identification of BA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Inguinal hernias (IHs) are sometimes encountered incidentally in children during laparoscopic appendectomy. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and outcomes of laparoscopic simultaneous inguinal hernia repair and appendectomy in children.
Methods: A multicentric study was performed in patients with AA and concurrent IH who received laparoscopic simultaneous inguinal hernia repair and appendectomy (study group), compared with patients who underwent two-stage laparoscopic procedures (control group) between September 2012 and January 2020.