Objective: To explore the efficacy of two surgical procedures by comparing mean operative time, average blood loss and postoperative pain score during conventional LigaSure. Study Design: Quasi-experimental study. Setting: Department Surgery, Aziz Fatimah Hospital, to compare regarding perioperative variables. Period: One Year (1st July 2020 -30th June 2021). Material & Methods: Sixty patie...

PURPOSE Energy-based surgical devices (ESDs) are critical for maintaining hemostasis during laparoscopy; however, there are no studies that have evaluated the function of ESDs under different physiologic conditions. We evaluated the effect of intraluminal vessel content on bursting pressure (BP) after ligation with two ESDs: the Harmonic ACE and the LigaSure V. MATERIALS AND METHODS Bursting ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our aim was to show that bladder cuff excision and distal ureterectomy can be safely performed by using the LigaSure device during robotic-assisted laparoscopic nephroureterectomy. METHODS A 60-year-old man presented with gross hematuria. He was diagnosed with upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) on the left side and was scheduled for robot-assisted ...

This research was aimed to investigate the clinical efficacy of Ligasure vessel sealing system combined with total abdominal hysterectomy in the treatment of cervical carcinoma. Ninety-six patients with cervical carcinoma admitted to the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of our hospital between October 2013 and October 2015 were selected. All patients received total abdominal hysterectom...

PURPOSE Small intercostal spaces and limited pleural space significantly limits the use of 12-mm stapling devices in pediatric thoracoscopic surgery. The goal of this study was to compare sealing of lung tissue by the 5-mm Ligasure (Valley Lab, Boulder, CO) device to a standard 12-mm Endo-GIA stapler (US Surgical, Norwalk, CT). METHODS Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) appro...

Treatment of Zenker’s diverticulum by flexible endoscopy is considered to be feasible, effective, and safe [1,2]. Endoscopic treatment consists of the division of the septum between the diverticulum and the esophagus, within which the cricopharyngeus muscle is contained [1,2]. This report describes the novel use of a LigaSure scalpel (Valleylab, Boulder, Colorado, USA) to perform flexible endos...