Background: To study the safety and efficacy provided by a minimal localized anesthesia in cataract surgery. Methods: Randomized controlled trial. A total of 100 patients undergoing surgery were randomly divided into two groups 50, which respecitvely received conventional topical consisting preservative-free Oxibuprocaine hydrochloride 0.4% drops or anesthesia, administered with cotton bud soak...

For many abdominal procedures, advantages such as minimal scarring, reduced pain, and faster recovery have made laparoscopy the favored approach over traditional open surgery. The most recent minimally invasive approach is natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), which limits morbidity because this surgery does not require incision. This article reviews the history, development,...

Laparoscopic surgery – is one of the most progressive minimal invasive surgery branches. About 25–40% of all abdominal operations are performed laparoscopicaly in our days and this rating is going in ascending order. Laparoscopic operations (cholecystectomy, fundoplication, appendectomy, bypass due to morbid obesity et at.) have rapidly become the operations of choice in abdominal surgery. Seve...

Minimally invasive approaches to the aortic valve have been described since 1993, with great hopes that they would become universal and facilitate day-case cardiac surgery. The literature has shown these procedures can be undertaken equivalent mortality rates, similar operative times, comparable costs, some benefits regarding hospital length of stay. competing efforts transcatheter implantation...

Minimal access surgery (MAS) includes conventional minimally invasive laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery, single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). An end of the evolution of MAS is not foreseeable, but there are still limitations. In the most common fields of intestinal surgery (cholecystectomy, appendectomy, colo-rectal resect...

We prospectively assessed the feasibility and safety of a new percutaneous pedicle screw (PPS) fixation technique for instrumentation of the thoracic and lumbar spine in this study. All patients were operated in the prone position under general anesthesia. A 6 to 8 cm midline skin incision was made and wide subcutaneous dissection was performed. The paravertebral muscles were first dissected su...

A review of the current scientific literature was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of minimally invasive periodontal regenerative surgery in the treatment of periodontal defects. The impact on clinical outcomes, surgical chair-time, side effects and patient morbidity were evaluated. An electronic search of PUBMED database from January 1987 to December 2011 was undertaken on dental journals u...

Robotic surgery reduces the amount of tissues that are damaged during a surgical procedure, thereby reducing the patient recovery time, discomfort and deleterious side effect such as infection. In this article, kinematic and dynamic analysis of a surgical tool manipulator is carried out to perform the desired range of motions for a typical minimal invasive surgical operation. The manipulator ha...

We present a new technique to remove plates from the proximal tibia arthroscopic-assisted with all advantages of the minimally invasive surgery and the possibility to treat concomitant intraarticular pathologies. The initial results (n = 7) are promising with an increase of the Lysholm score in all cases studied [preop. median 78 (range 32-100), postop. median 89 (range 60-100)]. In conclusion,...

T morbidity of surgical approaches in Scoliosis are also decreasing with the technological advances for improving surgical procedures similar to every field of surgery. Incapacitating spinal deformities were previously inevitable or possible with challenges at high surgical risks. During the time, evolvings in the implant industry with supports of visual and navigation technologies easened furt...