Innovative Endoscopic and Surgical Technology in the GI Tract

Santiago Horgan
Professor of Surgery

Chief of Department of Minimally invasive Surgery

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(TM) 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.