Journal ArticleSurg Endosc · June 2023
BACKGROUND: Financial relationships with industry may bias educational content delivered by physicians. SAGES strives to mitigate potential bias, relying on physician self-reporting. Retrospective review of relationships is possible using the Open Payments ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Endosc · April 2023
BACKGROUND: Professional medical associations (PMAs) have an essential role in advancing medical care and health. PMAs promote skills training, clinical standards, and other important educational activities. Most often, PMAs are not-for-profit entities tha ...
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Journal ArticleJSLS · 2023
INTRODUCTION: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a common procedure performed world-wide on patients with different comorbidities, with many indications and overall low morbidity. However, studies showed an elevated early mortality in patients un ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2022
Partnerships between physicians and the medical industry are invaluable for development of devices and procedures that improve patient care, but they also have the potential to negatively impact patient care when there are financial interests that are not ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Endosc · May 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is unprecedented in modern history. Its effects on social behavior and health care delivery have been dramatic. The resultant burden of disease and critical illness has outpaced the diagnostic, therapeutic, and he ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech · December 2020
BACKGROUND: As the minimally invasive surgery revolution approaches 30 years, many techniques are now available for cholecystectomy: open, conventional laparoscopy, ini-laparoscopy, single incision, robotic, and natural orifice. Although much has been publ ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Endosc · November 2020
This statement on informed consent, developed by the SAGES Ethics Committee, has been reviewed and approved by the Board of Governors of SAGES. This statement is provided to offer guidance about the purpose and process of obtaining informed consent, and it ...
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Journal ArticleJSLS · 2020
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the use of social media platforms by medical students, surgical trainees, and practicing surgeons for surgical education during the Covid-19 pandemic. METHODS: An online, 15-question survey was developed and posted on Facebook and Wh ...
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Journal ArticleJSLS · 2019
INTRODUCTION: This study was undertaken to identify which minimally invasive technique medical students prefer for cholecystectomy and what factors determine their decision. METHODS: Brazilian medical students watched a video reviewing the advantages and d ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
Surgical treatment of groin hernias has dramatically improved over the past century. Several contemporary tension-free techniques provide satisfactory results, including laparoscopic TAPP and TEP repairs. With the maturation of therapeutic laparoscopy has ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Technol Int · October 26, 2016
BACKGROUND: Mini-laparoscopy (Mini) was pioneered more than 20 years ago. Newer generation mini instruments have recently become available with improved effector tips, a choice of shaft diameters and lengths, better shaft insulation and electrosurgery capa ...
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Journal ArticleJSLS · 2016
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Current treatments for overweight adults include reduced-calorie diet, exercise, behavior modification, and selective use of medications. Many achieve suboptimal results with these measures and progress to obesity. Whether the in ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2016
The goal of the informed consent process is intended to lead either the patient or the research subject to make an informed (educated) and voluntary choice. That is to choose whether or not to have a particular clinical treatment/operation or whether or no ...
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Book · January 1, 2016
This text provides a comprehensive review of the ethical issues involved with the development, evaluation, and introduction of new treatments of gastrointestinal diseases. How several landmark surgical innovations were developed are described to show the c ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Technol Int · November 2015
Laparoscopy using miniature (2-3.5 mm) instruments was introduced in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Though mini laparoscopy (Mini) created new opportunities for surgical diagnosis and therapy, the limitations of early instruments inhibited widespread adop ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Technol Int · November 2015
Mini-laparoscopy (Mini) was pioneered more than 20 years ago, initially with instruments borrowed from other specialties and subsequently with tools designed specifically for Mini. Early adoption of Mini was inhibited though by the limitations of these fir ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Endosc · June 2015
INTRODUCTION: The relationship between the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and its industry partners has been longstanding, productive technologically, and beneficial to patient care and education. In order to both main ...
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Journal ArticleJSLS · 2015
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Therapeutic laparoscopy was incorporated into surgical practice more than 25 y ago. Several modifications have since been developed to further minimize surgical trauma and improve results. Minilaparoscopy, performed with 2- to 3- ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Endosc · August 2014
Ethical considerations relevant to the implementation of new surgical technologies and techniques are explored and discussed in practical terms in this statement, including (1) How is the safety of a new technology or technique ensured?; (2) What are the t ...
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Journal ArticleHernia · April 2014
PURPOSE: Biologic grafts are rarely used for inguinal herniorrhaphy. The aim of this study was to compare the clinical outcomes between patients undergoing a Lichtenstein's hernioplasty with a porcine mesh versus a standard synthetic. METHODS: A prospectiv ...
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Journal ArticleHernia · June 2011
PURPOSE: Biologic prostheses are designed to support tissue regeneration rather than just result in a strong scar plate, as is the case with synthetic mesh. It is not known if these newer materials will result in earlier return to normal activities and/or ...
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Journal ArticleJ Surg Oncol · September 1, 2006
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: To analyze the Kraske procedure as an approach to mid-rectal disease. METHODS: Twenty-two patients underwent a Kraske procedure at either Duke University Medical Center, the Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center, or the D ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Endosc · February 2006
BACKGROUND: In 1999, the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) introduced the SAGES Outcomes Initiative as a way for its members to track their own outcomes. It contains perioperative and postoperative data on nearly 20,000 opera ...
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Journal ArticleJ Virol · August 1991
The influence of human anti-human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) antibody on HIV-1 infection of freshly isolated normal human peritoneal macrophages and blood monocytes was examined. Each of 14 HIV antibody-positive human serum samples was found to ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunol · November 15, 1990
In an effort to determine the functional activity of anti-HIV-1 human mAb and to define the epitopes against which they are directed, supernatants from 10 EBV-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines producing mAb to HIV were tested. Five clones producing mAb ...
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Journal ArticleScience · August 24, 1990
The principal neutralizing determinant (PND) of human immunodeficiency virus HIV-1 is part of a disulfide bridged loop in the third variable region of the external envelope protein, gp120. Analysis of the amino acid sequences of this domain from 245 differ ...
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