Biosystems and Environmental Engineering Research Group, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. Electronic address: wgwenzi@agric.uz.ac.zw.
A high body mass index (BMI) generally increases the risk of postoperative complications because of the intraperitoneal adipose tissue. Robotic gastrectomy (RG) decreases the surgical difficulty of co...
We reviewed clinical data on patients who underwent either LG or RG at the National Cancer Center Hospital East between January, 2014 and May, 2022....
The 1298 patients eligible patients were divided into a non-overweight cohort (n = 996) (LG, n = 818; RG, n = 178) and an overweight cohort (n = 302) (LG, n = 250; RG, n = 52) according to a BMI cut-o...
RG may reduce the risk of postoperative complications, compared with conventional LG, in overweight patients....
Gastric adenocarcinoma is an aggressive disease and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Surgery entails either a total or a subtotal gastrectomy. These complex operations carry elevate...
Sleeve gastrectomy is one of the most popular bariatric surgeries. With the advent of new technologies, a reduced-port approach assisted by magnets for sleeve gastrectomy (RPSG-MA) has been developed....
A comparative study was performed. We compared two groups who underwent RPSG-MA (n=150) and CLSG (n=135) between January 2020 and January 2022....
Both groups were similar in body mass index, age, sex, and type of comorbidities. The operative time was similar in both groups (RPSG-MA, 52.5 min vs CLSG, 52.9 min; p = 0.829). Length of hospital (1....
The magnet-assisted reduced-port gastric sleeve compared to the conventional technique has proven to be safe, technically feasible and with multiple benefits....
Banded sleeve gastrectomy (BSG) was developed to restrict progressive dilation of the gastric sleeve, which remains a commonly implicated reason for weight regain following SG. The present study attem...
Evidence against the use of prophylactic drain after gastrectomy are increasing and ERAS guidelines suggest the benefit of drain avoidance. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether this practice is still w...
Robot-assisted gastrectomy (RG) for gastric cancer is still not well standardized. This study aimed to explore the feasibility and effectiveness of solo surgery in robot-assisted gastrectomy (SRG) for...
This was a single-center retrospective comparative study between SRG and conventional LG. Between April 2015 and December 2022, 510 patients underwent gastrectomy, and data from a prospectively collec...
After propensity score matching, 90 pairs of patients who underwent LG and SRG were selected. In the propensity-matched cohort, the operation time was significantly shorter in the SRG group than that ...
We found that SRG for gastric cancer was technically feasible and effective with favorable short-term outcomes, including shorter operative time, less estimated blood loss, shorter hospital stays, and...
Previous studies have suggested that there is an increased risk of osteoporotic fracture in gastric cancer survivors. However, the data was not classified according to surgery type. This study investi...
A total of 85,124 gastric cancer survivors during 2008-2016 were included. The type of surgery was classified as total gastrectomy (TG, n = 14,428)/subtotal gastrectomy (SG, n = 52,572)/endoscopic muc...
The incidence of OF per 100,000 patient year was 2.6, 2.1, 1.8 in TG, SG, ESD/EMR group. The cumulative incidence rate was 2.3% at 3 years, 4.0% at 5 years, and 5.8% at 7 years in gastrectomy group, a...
Gastric cancer survivors who underwent TG had an increased osteoporotic fracture risk than did SG or ESD/EMR in these patients. The amount of gastric resection and accompanying metabolic changes seeme...
The worsening of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and "...
Fifty-six patients who were classified as obese underwent surgery from January 2018 to January 2020. Patients who were obese and did not have GERD underwent LSG and patients who were obese and did hav...
A total of 45 patients completed the follow-up and a questionnaire-based evaluation (GERD-Q), of whom 23 patients underwent LSG and 22 patients underwent LSGFD. We had 1 case of leak after LSGFD.No me...
The incidence of...
Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is a widely used surgical method in the treatment of obesity. This study aimed to reveal the histopathological changes in SG materials and to investigate the prevalence of clin...
Three hundred five patients' data who underwent SG were analyzed. Cases were divided into three groups as normal, chronic inactive gastritis (CIG), and chronic active gastritis (CAG). Age, gender, and...
Thirty-three patients (10.8%) were in the normal group, 145 (47.5%) were in the CIG group, and 127 (41.6%) were in the CAG group. Preoperative endoscopic examination was performed in all cases, but He...
In our SG specimens, HP and clinically important lesions were significantly higher in the CAG group. Pathological examination should be carefully done as the lesions detected in SG specimens can chang...
Robotic gastrectomy (RG) has been shown to be a safe and feasible method in gastric cancer (GC) treatment. However, most studies are in Eastern cohorts and there is great interest in knowing whether t...
The aim of this study was to compare the short-term surgical outcomes of D2-gastrectomy by RG versus open gastrectomy (OG)....
Single-institution, open-label, non-inferiority, randomized clinical trial performed between 2015 and 2020. GC patients were randomized (1:1 allocation) to surgical treatment by RG or OG. Da Vinci Si ...
gastric adenocarcinoma, stage cT2-4 cN0-1, potentially curative surgery, age 18-80 years, and ECOG performance status 0-1....
emergency surgery and previous gastric or major abdominal surgery. Primary endpoint was short-term surgical outcomes. The study is registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT02292914)....
Of 65 randomized patients, 5 were excluded (3 palliatives, 1 obstruction and emergency surgery, and 1 for material shortage). Consequently, 31 and 29 patients were included for final analysis in the O...
RG reduces operative bleeding by more than 50%. The short-term outcomes were non-inferior to OG, although surgical time was longer in RG....
