Stapler-less burst pressure in an ex vivo human gastric tissue: a randomized controlled trial

Autor: Gianmattia del Genio, Mariachiara Lanza Volpe, Ludovico Docimo, Domenico Parmeggiani, Francesco Saverio Lucido, Luigi Brusciano, Salvatore Tolone, Claudio Gambardella
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Updates in Surgery
ISSN: 2038-3312
2038-131X
DOI: 10.1007/s13304-021-00975-y
Popis: Stapler-less laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is emerging as a new potential affordable cost-effective alternative procedure. However, no pre-clinical data are currently available on human tissue. We aimed to evaluate whether traditionally suturing without the use of surgical stapling may produce a comparable bursting pressure on human gastric tissue. A prospective cohort of consecutive patients undergoing LSG was divided in two groups to compare a barbed extra-mucosal running suture (stapler-less) versus a standard stapler line. A burst pressure test was applied to the gastric specimen employing high-resolution manometric catheter. Type, location and features of the leak were described. We enrolled a total of 40 obese patients, 20 patients for each group. Median burst pressures of the stapler-less group resulted statistically significant increased (p p = N.S.), more often at the proximal stomach (p
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