Robotic median arcuate ligament release: a video vignette.

Median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS) poses a rare challenge in diagnosis and management. We present a case of MALS in a 50-year-old male with recurrent epigastric pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. Diagnostic imaging revealed celiac artery stenosis and gastroduodenal artery collateral dilatation.

Feasibility and Safety Study of the Use of a New Robot (Maestro™) for Laparoscopic Surgery.

Background: In laparoscopic surgery, telerobotic systems such as Da Vinci™ were developed, among other things, to give back exposure and vision control to the operating surgeon. However, new limitations such as the separation of the operating surgeon from the operating table, cost, and size were unveiled. A new device, Maestro™, appears promising in addressing these limitations.

Sleeve gastrectomy with duodenoileal bipartition using linear magnets: feasibility and safety at 1-year follow-up.

Background: Single-anastomosis metabolic/bariatric surgery procedures may lessen the incidence of anastomotic complications. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and safety of performing side-to-side duodenoileal (DI) bipartition using magnetic compression anastomosis (MCA). In addition, preliminary efficacy, quality of life (QoL), and distribution of food through the DI bipartition were evaluated.

The Utilisation of Digital Applications for Measuring Patient Outcomes Following Bariatric Surgery: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Comparative Studies.

In the context of escalating obesity rates, bariatric surgery holds a crucial role in managing severely obese patients. With a demonstrated effectiveness in weight loss and with the advent of ambulatory surgery, bariatric surgery allows for a streamlined care pathway, ideally suited for postoperative surveillance using digital health applications. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to evaluate the effect of eHealth-delivered health services or support for adults undergoing bariatric surgery.

Bariatric Artery Embolization for Obese Patients. An Up-to-Date Review.

Overweight and obesity are one of public health's major problems in the world. Conservative treatment with exercise, diet and pharmacotherapy is often ineffective, especially in the long term. Bariatric surgery is the gold standard method for a sustained long-term weight loss.

First human surgery using a surgical assistance robotics device for laparoscopic cholecystectomies.

Background: Over the past 20 years, surgeons involved in soft tissue minimally invasive surgery have experienced the pros and cons of both conventional and tele-robotic laparoscopic approaches. The Maestro System, developed by Moon Surgical (Paris, France) aims to overcome the challenges inherent to both approaches thanks to a new concept that augments the surgeon's performance at the bedside during a laparoscopic procedure.

Methods: The current study aims to present the first human experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy with the Maestro system on 10 patients.

Is a giant incisional hernia a contraindication for laparoscopic cholecystectomy?

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures worldwide. A previous abdominal operation is not considered a significant risk factor for conversion to open cholecystectomy. We describe the case of an 80-year-old woman with a surgical history of a giant uncomplicated incisional midline hernia presenting at our department with choledocholithiasis and acute cholangitis.

Side-to-side magnet anastomosis system duodeno-ileostomy with sleeve gastrectomy: early multi-center results.

Introduction: Gastrointestinal anastomoses with classical sutures and/or metal staples have resulted in significant bleeding and leak rates. This multi-site study evaluated the feasibility, safety, and preliminary effectiveness of a novel linear magnetic compression anastomosis device, the Magnet System (MS), to form a side-to-side duodeno-ileostomy (DI) diversion for weight loss and type 2 diabetes (T2D) resolution.

Methods: In patients with class II and III obesity (body mass index [BMI, kg/m] ≥ 35.

Case report: Sclerosed hemangioma of the liver: A diagnostic challenge.

Hemangiomas are the most common noncystic benign hepatic tumors and are usually incidentally discovered during routine radiological examinations. The diagnosis of hepatic hemangiomas with a typical presentation is generally easy with plain and cross-sectional imaging; however, it can be complicated when hemangiomas undergo histological changes such as fibrosis. Sclerosed hepatic hemangioma (SHH) is the extreme presentation of this fibrotic process.

Drosophila C virus: experimental study of infectious yields and underlying pathology in Drosophila melanogaster laboratory populations.

The underlying pathology of a nonhereditary virus, the Drosophila C virus, was studied. This study was related to the contamination routes (ingestion or contact) and developmental timing. When oral contamination occurred at the first larval instar: (1) the flies were contaminated, (2) the flies which had developed the most rapidly were the most infected, (3) in newly emerged females, the level of virus was higher than in newly emerged males, (4) when infected flies were reared on virus-free medium only males lost their virus.

[Activity of the corpora allata of diapausing females of Tetrix undulata (SWRB) (Orthoptera-Tetrigidae)].

The implantation of one or two pairs of corpora allata of diapausing females in another diapausing females (two weeks old) induces vitellogenesis and laying of one, two or three egg-pods in a great number of females. The denervation of the corpora-allata of a diapausing female also induced vitellogenesis. These results suggeste that corpora-allata of diapausing females are not active.

[Maturation of the female Tetrix undulata (Swrb) (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae): influence of the male and copulation:parthenogenetic egg-laying].

The percentage of laying females and laying time, are compared between mature females (diapause break by chilling) and diapause strain females (diapause not broken by chilling) reared with mature male or diapause male or without male. For the same physiological state of the females (mature or diapause) there is no difference in the percentage of females laying, when they are reared with mature male or with diapause one or none; but the laying time is shortest with mature male, longer with male in diapause, even longer without male. Parthenogenetic egg-pods can be obtain.

[Allatecotomy and imaginal diapause in female Tetrix undulata (Sow.) (Orthoptera, (Tetrigidae)].

Allatectomised females (whose diapause has been broken by chilling) do not lay though sham-operated or unoperated or unoperated controls do lay: corpora allata are essential for maturation. Ovocyte size is the same for allatectomized females as for diapause females. So it seems that the lack of ovocyte development might be the result of the inactivity or inhibition of corporal allata.

[Termination of imaginal diapause of female Tetrix undulate (Sow.) (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae) by implantation of the corpora allata of an active female Locusta migratoria].

The effect of implanted active corpora allata on the reproductive diapause in adult females of grasshopper, Tetrix undulata (Sow.) was investigated. Implantation of one corpus allatum originating from sexually mature, adult female Locusta migratoria donors effectively terminated reproductive diapause by inducing oocyte development and egg-laying.