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Travelling Scholarships

Sat, 30 May 2020 18:29:23 GMT

The Society is offering travelling scholarships for short term training opportunities to medical and nursing staff.
The 2019 travelling scholarship was awarded to an Endoscopy Nurse from Athens who attended the "King's Live Endoscopy Masterclass" of King's College Hospital London in November 2019.
The 2020 travelling scholarship will be advertised via the Twitter account of the Society @surgerypelvis by end of July 2020 with instructions for application. The award will be announced by end of September 2020.

Laparoscopic rectopexy using Protack staples - no mesh required

Sun, 02 Dec 2018 10:12:05 GMT

Mesh in laparoscopic rectopexy has caused controversy because of mesh-related complications. Suture rectopexy cannot be mastered by surgeons who are not competent in laparoscopic suturing. The use of Protack staples may be providing an answer to the technical problem of securing the rectum onto the sacrum, as this recent study shows.

Laparoscopic Protack™ rectopexy: Early experience of a novel technique for full thickness rectal prolapse in children. - PubMed - NCBI https://t.co/iIeHD51qxQ
— Int. Society of Pelvic Surgery (@surgerypelvis) December 2, 2018

Perforated Diverticulitis: Laparoscopy gaining ground

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:15:20 GMT

View the key findings of a perforated #diverticulitis study led by TE Baldock, LR Brown and RC McLean in the North of England below. #colorectalsurgery pic.twitter.com/W59CCIJhkb
— ESCP (@escp_tweets) November 8, 2018

New Dutch Guidelines for Rectal Prolapse

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:54:37 GMT

Management of patients with rectal prolapse: the 2017 Dutch Guidelines https://t.co/VDaiImSbWU
— Int. Society of Pelvic Surgery (@surgerypelvis) November 12, 2018

Mesh not necessary for laparoscopic rectopexy

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 12:57:17 GMT

Lately there have been several concerns about safety of synthetic mesh for surgery in the pelvis. Migration of the mesh, erosion into adjacent bowel, formation of dense adhesions and chronic pain have been described in several studies and there also have been some high profile legal cases. The alternative use of biological mesh has been tried, however the main problem with that is the extremely high cost of that mesh. Biological mesh also has less strength and shrinks more than synthetic mesh and its long term efficacy has not been reported yet.

Laparoscopic rectopexy with the use of sutures has been reported and is also practiced by the author. It is a simple and efficient way to fixate the rectum onto the pre sacral fascia. The only caveat: it requires skills in laparoscopic suturing! Yasukawa et al have described a series of 15 patients who had successful laparoscopic suture rectopexy for rectal prolapse without complications and very low recurrence (read the results here). The technique is promising and should be formally studied.

November 08th, 2017

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 12:54:52 GMT

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