Session 30

 

Monday, September 4
10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Room 3

 

 

Complications of esophagectomy (Part 1)

 

Chairs: Andrew C. Chang (USA) – Navtej S. Buttar (USA)

Discussants: Wen-tao Fang (China) – Denis Collet (France)

 

• Physiopathology of post-operative pulmonary complications. Jun-Feng Liu (China)
• Effective ways of prevention for leakages after esophagectomy. Ke-neng Chen (China)
             - Does ischemic pre-conditioning prevent anastomotic leak?
• Early detection. Lucas Goense (Netherlands)
• What is the role of early endoscopy in detection of anastomotic leakage? Denis Collet (France)
• How to identify Ischemia of transposed stomach early? Peter C. Wu (USA)
• Is a cervical anastomosis safer than an intrathoracic? Mark Schiesser (Switzerland)
• How to proper diagnose a cervical leakage? Enrique D. Pirchi (Argentina)
• What is the state of the art management of cervical leakage? Ines Gockel (Germany)
• How to avoid leakage in cervical esophago-gastro-anastomosis? Philippe Nafteux (Belgium)
• How to proper diagnose a intrathoracic leakage? Seung Chon (Germany)
• Diagnosis and treatment of tracheoesophageal fistula after VATS esophagectomies.
  Wen-tao Fang (China)
• Stent placement for endoscopic management of leaks after esophagectomy. Khean-li Goh (Malaysia)
• Sponge treatment for leakage of intrathoracic anastomosis – first choice? Peter Grimminger (Germany)
• How should intrathoracic anastomotic leak be managed – operation or otherwise?
  S.M. Chandramohan (India)
• Acceptable frequency, options and best strategy to treat chylothorax?
  Annelies Schnider Preisig (Switzerland)
• What are the Indications of per-cutaneous treatment of chylothorax? Bernard Meunier (France)
• Video presentation: repair of tracheo-esophageal fistula by skin perforator flap pedicle.
  Bernard Meunier (France)