Innovative Endoscopic and Surgical Technology in the GI Tract

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the art overview on the main trends in the newest endoscopic, robotic, and minimal invasive surgical innovations. It also aims to give insight on some of the innovative ideas around Gastro-intestinal Surgery and Endoscopy to stimulate further activities. It contains established knowledge in the field of endoscopic and surgical techniques, and the integration of these new findings in updated therapeutic decision making are demonstrated. The text reviews the latest literature on the subjects and describes the decision making to establish new therapeutic options in the management of diseases applying new technologies. These new techniques are described in detail, which provide excellent back-up information for clinicians in daily practice.Written by experts in the field, Innovative Endoscopic and Surgical Technology in the GI Tract is a valuable resource of knowledge for clinicians, surgeons, nurses, technicians, students and researchers with an interest in GI- disease.

Overview of Current Robotic Technology.- Challenges in robotic and minimally invasive pancreatic surgery in the year 2020.- Challenges in Robotic Liver Surgery.- Robotic Esophageal Surgery.- Challenges in robotic colorectal surgery.- Robotic flexible endoscopes.- Robotized MIS instruments: filling the gap between rigid tools and large robotic systems.- The Role of Endoscopic Technology in GastrointestinaI Surgery.- Indication, Technique and Results of Endoscopic Cricomyotomy.- Transesophageal Tunneling Technique and Peroral endoscopic Myotomy POEM.- The EndoFLIP™ system allows a tailored peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for achalasia.- G-POEM: A minimally invasive endoscopic technique for gastroparesis.- Intraluminal Endoscopic Suturing System in the Esophagus with separate Instruments.- ENDOSCOPIC SUTURING PLATFORMS FOR BARIATRIC PROCEDURES.- Transgastric endoscopic interventions at the pancreas.- Endoscopic Ultrasound guided Interventions.- EFTR – ENDOSCOPIC FULL-THICKNESS RESECTION.- New endoscopic tools for special indications.- ESD – indications, techniques and results.- The “Rendezvous”- principle in endoscopic and surgical procedures.- Percutaneous endoscopic intragastric surgery in the treatment of stromal tumors at esophagogastric junction.- Endoscopic-Surgical Platforms.- The Fortimedix Surgical Endo-surgery Platform.- Techniques and Challenges with the Master-Slave System for Endoscopic Surgery.- Transgastric intraabdominal Surgery.- Endoscopic Platforms.- Transanal Microsurgery TEM and TEO.- Transanal Endoscopic Colon Resections.- The Medrobotics Platform for transanal surgery.- The potential of single site surgery.- New Single Site Platforms.- Intraoperative imaging for procedures of the gastrointestinal tract.- Fluorescence-Guided Surgery of the Biliary Tree Utilizing Indocyanine Green (ICG).- ICG Image-Guided Surgery with the Assessment for Anastomotic Safety.- Advanced endoscopic imaging methods.- The struggle to from idea to product.- Artificial Intelligence.