[Mechanical digestive system suturing devices]. 1996

A Popovici, and I Popescu, and M I Ionescu, and C Vasilescu, and G Mitulescu, and C A Iliescu
Clinica de chirurgie generală, Spitalul Clinic Fundeni, Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Carol Davila, Bucureşti.

Between 1994 (December)-1996 (May) 150 patients have been operated on using one or many stapling devices. The staplers disposable to us were the "Linear Cutter" or GIA (Gastrointestinal Anastomosis), "Linear Stapler" (TA) and "Intraluminal Circular Stapler" or EEA (end-to-end anastomosis) types, produced by ETHICON (Johnson and Johnson Ltd. Company). The principles operations performed were various digestive resections, intervisceralis anastomosis and interventions of reconstructions (in oesophagus surgery, ileal pouch etc.). The advantages of staplers applications are: a) the reduction of the time of operation, of the anesthesia, of the blood loss; b) a soft manipulation of the tissues; c) a smaller inflammatory reaction and the prevention of intraoperative septic contamination and d) a better and faster take back of the functionality of the anastomosis. There were only 4 intraoperative haemorrhages easy controllable. Postoperative complications: a) 3 haemorrhages medically treated; b) immediate leakage 1 patient after colorectoanastomosis, treated by Hartman colostomy; precocious, 7 patients and after 4-6 month, 2 patients. Corrective iterative interventions were necessary only in 5 patients. The operative mortality-1 patient, the cause of death being a bronhopneumonia after a radical oesophagectomy with oesophagoplasty (oesophageal cancer). There was not postoperative mortality depending of stapling application. We don't observed late postoperative complications like stenosis of various anastomosis, quoted in the literature, because the time of following of our 150 patients is too short (maximum 18 months). The conclusions are that the stapling devices are a real surgical progress with the conditions of a correct indication and adequate tactics and operative technique. The economical effort is justified and entirely compensated by the major benefits obtained for the patients.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007431 Intraoperative Complications Complications that affect patients during surgery. They may or may not be associated with the disease for which the surgery is done, or within the same surgical procedure. Peroperative Complications,Surgical Injuries,Complication, Intraoperative,Complication, Peroperative,Injuries, Surgical,Complications, Intraoperative,Complications, Peroperative,Injury, Surgical,Intraoperative Complication,Peroperative Complication,Surgical Injury
D011183 Postoperative Complications Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery. Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D005069 Evaluation Studies as Topic Works about studies that determine the effectiveness or value of processes, personnel, and equipment, or the material on conducting such studies. Critique,Evaluation Indexes,Evaluation Methodology,Evaluation Report,Evaluation Research,Methodology, Evaluation,Pre-Post Tests,Qualitative Evaluation,Quantitative Evaluation,Theoretical Effectiveness,Use-Effectiveness,Critiques,Effectiveness, Theoretical,Evaluation Methodologies,Evaluation Reports,Evaluation, Qualitative,Evaluation, Quantitative,Evaluations, Qualitative,Evaluations, Quantitative,Indexes, Evaluation,Methodologies, Evaluation,Pre Post Tests,Pre-Post Test,Qualitative Evaluations,Quantitative Evaluations,Report, Evaluation,Reports, Evaluation,Research, Evaluation,Test, Pre-Post,Tests, Pre-Post,Use Effectiveness
D006471 Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage Bleeding in any segment of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT from ESOPHAGUS to RECTUM. Hematochezia,Hemorrhage, Gastrointestinal,Gastrointestinal Hemorrhages,Hematochezias
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000075202 Contraindications A condition or factor associated with a recipient that makes the use of a drug, procedure, or physical agent improper or inadvisable. Contraindications may be absolute (life threatening) or relative (higher risk of complications in which benefits may outweigh risks). Contraindications, Physical Agent,Medical Contraindications,Agent Contraindication, Physical,Agent Contraindications, Physical,Contraindication,Contraindication, Medical,Contraindication, Physical Agent,Contraindications, Medical,Medical Contraindication,Physical Agent Contraindication,Physical Agent Contraindications
D000714 Anastomosis, Surgical Surgical union or shunt between ducts, tubes or vessels. It may be end-to-end, end-to-side, side-to-end, or side-to-side. Surgical Anastomosis,Anastomoses, Surgical,Surgical Anastomoses
D013505 Digestive System Surgical Procedures Surgery performed on the digestive system or its parts. Gastrointestinal Surgical Procedures,Digestive System Surgical Procedure,Gastrointestinal Surgical Procedure,Procedure, Digestive System Surgical,Procedure, Gastrointestinal Surgical,Procedures, Digestive System Surgical,Procedures, Gastrointestinal Surgical,Surgical Procedure, Digestive System,Surgical Procedure, Gastrointestinal,Surgical Procedures, Digestive System,Surgical Procedures, Gastrointestinal
D013528 Surgical Staplers Fastening devices composed of steel-tantalum alloys used to close operative wounds, especially of the skin, which minimizes infection by not introducing a foreign body that would connect external and internal regions of the body. (From Segen, Current Med Talk, 1995) Stapler, Surgical,Staplers, Surgical,Surgical Stapler
D017792 Surgical Stapling A technique of closing incisions and wounds, or of joining and connecting tissues, in which staples are used as sutures. Stapling, Surgical,Staplings, Surgical,Surgical Staplings

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