Iniciar sesión

NorthShore University Health System

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Medicine

Cooling or Warming the Esophagus to Reduce Esophageal Injury During Left Atrial Ablation in the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation

Jason Zagrodzky¹, Mark M. Gallagher², Lisa W. M. Leung², Tiffany Sharkoski³, Pasquale Santangeli⁴, Cory Tschabrunn⁴, Jose M. Guerra⁵, Bieito Campos⁵, John MacGregor⁶, Jamal Hayat², Brad Clark⁷, Alex Mazur⁸, Marcel Feher⁹, Martin Arnold⁹, Mark Metzl¹⁰, Jose Nazari¹⁰, Erik Kulstad¹¹

¹St. David's South Austin Medical Center, ²St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, St. George's, University of London, ³Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, ⁴University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, ⁵Hospital de la Santa Creu I Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBERCV, ⁶PeaceHealth Medical Group, St. Joseph Medical Center, ⁷St. Vincent Hospital, ⁸University of Iowa, ⁹University Hospital Erlangen, ¹⁰NorthShore University Health System, ¹¹Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center

The goal of this protocol is to describe the use of esophageal temperature modulation to counteract esophageal thermal injury from left atrial ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation.

Cancer Research

Robotic Pancreatoduodenectomy for Pancreatic Head Cancer: a Case Report of a Standardized Technique

Maurice J. W. Zwart^*1,2, Leia R. Jones^*1,2,3, Melissa E. Hogg⁴, Johanna A. M. G. Tol^1,2, Mohammad Abu Hilal³, Freek Daams⁵, Sebastiaan Festen⁶, Olivier R. Busch^1,2, Marc G. Besselink^1,2,

¹Department of Surgery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, ²Cancer Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands, ³Department of General Surgery, Istituto Ospedaliero Fondazione Poliambulanza, ⁴Department of Surgery, Northshore University Health System, ⁵Department of Surgery, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Cancer Center Amsterdam, ⁶Department of Surgery, OLVG

Robotic pancreatoduodenctomy (RPD) has been highly standardized in recent years and may be used in selected patients with pancreatic head cancer, including those with a replaced right hepatic artery. This case report describes a standardized and reproducible technique for RPD, which includes the approach of the Dutch LAELAPS-3 training program to an aberrant vasculature.